The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day--from the Cold War to the 2008 financial crisis and wars in the Middle East--Empire of Democracy is "a superbly informed and riveting historical analysis of our contemporary era" (Charles S. Maier, Harvard University). 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...
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