Introduction
1: International Relations
2: Economics
3: Immigration
4: Europe
5: Northern Ireland
6: Conclusion
Index
Paul Corthorn is a Reader in Modern British History at Queen's University Belfast. He has published widely on twentieth century British political history, including In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s (2006) and The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy (2008), co-edited with Jonathan Davis. He lives in Belfast with his family.
Contributes important new insights to [the] wider appraisal of
Powell.
*Nick Pearce, Financial Times*
Corthorn's rigour is impressive ... [this book is] a valuable guide
to a figure who looms over Brexit Britain.
*Christoper Kissane, Irish Times*
[A] welcome and timely study...
*Colin Kidd, New Statesman*
[A] superb new study.
*Richard Toye, Times Literary Supplement*
The task of tracing the course of Powell's ideas in all their
contortions and contradictions, and assessing their impact, is not
easy. But Paul Corthorn accomplishes it admirably. His book is
clear, coherent and concise. It is based on a vast amount of
reading and research. All told, it is a model of scholarship.
*Piers Brendon, Literary Review*
A crisp and compelling piece of work.
*Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books*
Written in an engaging style, this book offers much food for
thought about a personality whose relevance to British politics is
unlikely to disappear any time soon.
*Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association*
Enoch Powell remains the single most controversial politician in
modern British history. Yet more than half a century after his most
incendiary speech, his influence is arguably greater than ever. In
this splendidly learned, astute and provocative study, Paul
Corthorn invites us to look more closely at what Powell said and
believed. With scrupulous care and attention to detail, he examines
the roots and legacy of Powell's ideas, both placing him in his
historical context and exploring his afterlives in British
politics. Mercifully free from academic jargon and armchair
moralising, this is a gripping and colourful read and a model of
historical scholarship.
*Dominic Sandbrook, author of State of Emergency: The Way We Were:
Britain, 1970-1974*
This is a highly readable and informative text that will appeal to
scholars and general readers. It portrays Powell not as the
caricature of liberal nightmares or far-right dreams, but as a
sophisticated and idiosyncratic political thinker whose ideational
content is interesting both in its own right and as a lens through
which to view post-war British politics.
*Joseph J. Himsworth, The Journal of British Studies*
An authoritative and well-informed account of [Powell's] beliefs
and philosophy - their origins, their substance and their
development.
*Pete Dorey, Cercles*
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