By Robert Skidelsky
ISBN-10: 0099572397
ISBN-13: 9780099572398
This is the query Robert Skidelsky poses during this interesting research of a century during which Britain misplaced an empire, fought international wars, based the welfare kingdom and weathered monetary turbulence and technological upheaval.
We are familiar with judging countries by way of their luck in expanding or retaining energy - by way of those measures Britain has did not thrive, yet what of caliber of existence, prosperity, political, cultural and ethical values?
The British everyone is richer and fitter than in 1900. regardless of cataclysmic occasions and a few fraying on the edges, our society is extra democratic and tolerant, and our structure of liberty has been preserved, at a value. Bu inequality of wealth source of revenue is far because it used to be prior to 1914, finance is scarcely much less proud or extra content material, and historical past remains to be made through the elite.
Starting with an evaluation of the fabric, political, cultural and ethical assets Britain delivered to the 20 th century, Skidelsky turns to how occasions and the activities of Lloyd George, Churchill, Thatcher and Blair had an effect upon them, debating the character of luck, and what the longer term could carry for the country.
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