Overview

The erosion of British sovereignty, national identity and cul-ture, the subversion of its history and traditions, and the demoralization of its institutions and public services, are a source of increasing unease to many. The process began, Betts argues, with the end of the colonial empires. Since the beginning of the last decade, concern about the consequences has been heightened by global instability. The demise of the Communist empire, the rise of national independence movements, and the eruption of long standing and bitter ethno-national conflicts have resulted in a mass migration of economic refugees and asylum seekers to Britain and other Western nations. In Britain, public attitudes are ambivalent. The result is cynicism and disenchantment with the political process as a whole. Betts's objective is to promote responsible and informed discussion of these issues. In the absence of this, he warns, we risk the twilight of a harmonious British society, diminished pride in British institutions and national identity, and competing and conflicting separatist ethnic, racial, and cultural claims. Twilight of Britain will be of interest to general readers, those interested in modern Britain and Europe, as well as sociologists, political scientists, and philosophers.

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Author:   G. Gordon Betts
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780765800657

ISBN 10:   0765800659
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   31 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction and the Principal Propositions; 2: Culture and the Appeal of Culturalism; 3: The Convergence of Race, Culture, Ethnicity, Class, and Identity; 4: Relativism: Cultural, Moral, and Political; 5: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity; 6: The Multicultural Threat; 7: Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Nationalism; 8: The Appeal of Nationhood and Kinship; 9: The Nation-State, Sovereignty, and the European Union; 10: The Obligation of Loyalty and Patriotism; 11: The Re-Emergence of Ethno-National Conflicts; 12: The Education and Understanding Fallacy; 13: The Fiction of Global Idealism, Cosmopolitanism, and the United Nations; 14: The Misappropriation of Universal Human Rights; 15: Global Migration and Refugees; 16: The Failure of Immigration Control; 17: Prejudice, Stereotyping, Victimhood, and the Culture of Complaint; 18: Racial Intolerance and Reverse Racism; 19: Positive Discrimination and the Equality Paradox; 20: Cultural Assimilation or Separatist Ghettoisation; 21: Freedom of Speech, Social Censorship, and Political Correctness; 22: Freedom of Religion and its Misuse; 23: Toleration and the Demise of the Anglican Church; 24: Toleration, Human Nature, and Distancing; 25: Toleration and its Features; 26: Toleration as a Moral Virtue and its Limits; 27: Pragmatism and the Politics of Negotiation; 28: Cultural Nationalism and Multiculturalism Revisited

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G. Gordon Betts was educated in the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Greenwich, and Kent at Canterbury. He is a chartered chemical engineer, having spent his professional career with a major British oil company in the petrochemical industry.

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