The language of progressive politics in modern Britain / Emily Robinson.
Robinson, Emily, author.
2017
JN231
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Title The language of progressive politics in modern Britain / Emily Robinson.
Author Robinson, Emily, author.
ISBN 9781137506641 (electronic book)
1137506644 (electronic book)
9781137506610
113750661X
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number JN231
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.941
Summary This book traces the word ‘progressive’ through modern British history, from the Enlightenment to Brexit. It explores the shifting meanings of this term and the contradictory political projects to which it has been attached. It also places this political language in its cultural context, asking how it relates to ideas about progressive social development, progressive business, and progressive rock music. ‘Progressive’ is often associated with a centre-left political tradition, but this book shows that this was only ever one use of the term – and one that was heavily contested even from its inception. The power of the term ‘progressive’ is that it appears to anticipate the future. This can be politically and culturally valuable, but it is also dangerous. The suggestion that there is only one way forward has led to fear and doubt, anger and apathy, even amongst those who would like to consider themselves ‘progressive people’.
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Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: Being Progressive; Politics; Temporality; Consequences; Methods and Approach; Structure; … By Any Other Name?; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Newspapers, Periodicals and News Sites; Online Archives; Manifestos and Pamphlets; Secondary Sources; Chapter 2: Two Natural and Inevitable Parties?; Progress Itself; Progress and Politics; Time and Space; The Developmental Self; Two Parties; Liberty and Property; Progressive Conservatism; Tory Democracy; Conservative Socialism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Archival SourcesNewspapers and Periodicals; Online Archives; Speeches, Lectures and Talks; Manifestos and Pamphlets; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 3: Municipal Enterprise: Contesting the Liberal Tradition; Municipal Beginnings; Active Municipalism; Language in Context; Liberals and Socialists; Wise Government; Commerce and Enterprise; New Alliances; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Newspapers and Periodicals; Online Archives; Speeches, Lectures and Talks; Manifestos and Pamphlets; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources

Chapter 4: The Pageant of Parliament: Politics in the Time of ModernismThe Popular Front; The Pageant of Parliament; Getting Things Done; National Government; The Critique of Party; The Extra-Parliamentary Left; Entering the Narrative; The Race of Progress; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Newspapers and Periodicals; Online Archives; Websites; Films; Speeches, Lectures and Talks; Manifestos and Pamphlets; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Unpublished Papers and Theses; Chapter 5: Puzzled People: Making Sense of Modernity; The Whirr of Progress; Progressive People

Self-DevelopmentCan Britain Make It?; Left or Right?; 'Over There'; Trendy Liberalism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Newspapers and Periodicals; Online Archives; Films; Speeches, Lectures and Talks; Manifestos and Pamphlets; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Unpublished Papers and Theses; Chapter 6: Party Games: Realignments and Revisionism; The Affluent Society; Realignments; Wooing the Liberals; 'Red' Liberalism; Historical Revisionism; Alliance; History De-railed; Progressive Rock; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Sources; Newspapers and Periodicals

Online ArchivesSpeeches, Lectures and Talks; Manifestos and Pamphlets; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Change: Modernisation and Its Discontents; Beyond Left and Right; Unceasing Modernisation; The Progressive Conservatism Project; New Progressives; Rethinking Labour; Rage Against the Establishment; The Regressive Left; Wasted Effort?90; No Future?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Newspapers, Periodicals and News Sites; Online Archives; Websites; Speeches, Lectures and Talks; Manifestos and Pamphlets; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Sources

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