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The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day, Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are.Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to the next - a new political-economic order was devised and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew. In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped our own times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and western history with it, was profoundly reimagined when the postwar Golden Age ended.
About the Author
Simon Reid-Henry is an author and academic. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was awarded the Leverhulme Prize in 2012. Presently he is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His writing can be found in The Guardian, New Statesman, The Economist, The Times, The Independent on Sunday, and the London Review of Books. He divides his time between London and Oslo, where he lives with his wife and their two sons.
