Author: Paul Corthorn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198747152
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on what came to be known as Thatcherism. Telling the story of Powell's political life from the 1950s onwards, Paul Corthorn's intellectual biography goes beyond a fixation on the 'Rivers of Blood' speech to bring us a man who thought deeply about - and often took highly unusual (and sometimes apparently contradictory) positions on - the central political debates of the post-1945 era: denying the existence of the Cold War (at one stage going so far as to advocate the idea of an alliance with the Soviet Union); advocating free-market economics long before it was fashionable, while remaining a staunch defender of the idea of a National Health Service; vehemently opposing British membership of the European Economic Community; arguing for the closer integration of Northern Ireland with the rest of the UK; and in the 1980s supporting the campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament. In the process, Powell emerges as more than just a deeply divisive figure but as a seminal political intellectual of his time. Paying particular attention to the revealing inconsistencies in Powell's thought and the significant ways in which his thinking changed over time, Corthorn argues that Powell's diverse campaigns can nonetheless still be understood as a coherent whole, if viewed as part of a long-running, and wide-ranging, debate set against the backdrop of the long-term decline in Britain's international, military, and economic position in the decades after 1945.
Enoch Powell
Author: Paul Corthorn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198747152
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on what came to be known as Thatcherism. Telling the story of Powell's political life from the 1950s onwards, Paul Corthorn's intellectual biography goes beyond a fixation on the 'Rivers of Blood' speech to bring us a man who thought deeply about - and often took highly unusual (and sometimes apparently contradictory) positions on - the central political debates of the post-1945 era: denying the existence of the Cold War (at one stage going so far as to advocate the idea of an alliance with the Soviet Union); advocating free-market economics long before it was fashionable, while remaining a staunch defender of the idea of a National Health Service; vehemently opposing British membership of the European Economic Community; arguing for the closer integration of Northern Ireland with the rest of the UK; and in the 1980s supporting the campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament. In the process, Powell emerges as more than just a deeply divisive figure but as a seminal political intellectual of his time. Paying particular attention to the revealing inconsistencies in Powell's thought and the significant ways in which his thinking changed over time, Corthorn argues that Powell's diverse campaigns can nonetheless still be understood as a coherent whole, if viewed as part of a long-running, and wide-ranging, debate set against the backdrop of the long-term decline in Britain's international, military, and economic position in the decades after 1945.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198747152
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Best known for his notorious 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968 and his outspoken opposition to immigration, Enoch Powell was one of the most controversial figures in British political life in the second half of the twentieth century and a formative influence on what came to be known as Thatcherism. Telling the story of Powell's political life from the 1950s onwards, Paul Corthorn's intellectual biography goes beyond a fixation on the 'Rivers of Blood' speech to bring us a man who thought deeply about - and often took highly unusual (and sometimes apparently contradictory) positions on - the central political debates of the post-1945 era: denying the existence of the Cold War (at one stage going so far as to advocate the idea of an alliance with the Soviet Union); advocating free-market economics long before it was fashionable, while remaining a staunch defender of the idea of a National Health Service; vehemently opposing British membership of the European Economic Community; arguing for the closer integration of Northern Ireland with the rest of the UK; and in the 1980s supporting the campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament. In the process, Powell emerges as more than just a deeply divisive figure but as a seminal political intellectual of his time. Paying particular attention to the revealing inconsistencies in Powell's thought and the significant ways in which his thinking changed over time, Corthorn argues that Powell's diverse campaigns can nonetheless still be understood as a coherent whole, if viewed as part of a long-running, and wide-ranging, debate set against the backdrop of the long-term decline in Britain's international, military, and economic position in the decades after 1945.
Like the Roman
Author: Simon Heffer
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 9780753808207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1039
Book Description
Written with full access to all Powell's public and private papers, this biography details Powell's Midlands childhood, his appointment at the age of 25 as Professor of Greek at the University of Adelaide, his writing of poetry, his love for an Irish woman and his "Rivers of Blood" speech.
Publisher: Phoenix
ISBN: 9780753808207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1039
Book Description
Written with full access to all Powell's public and private papers, this biography details Powell's Midlands childhood, his appointment at the age of 25 as Professor of Greek at the University of Adelaide, his writing of poetry, his love for an Irish woman and his "Rivers of Blood" speech.
Enoch at 100
Author: Lord Howard
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1849544301
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Enoch at 100 is a critical reassessment of Enoch Powell's legacy by some of the leading political figures, writers and commentators of the current age. The book covers the role of government and the state of the economy, the European Union, constitutional reform, immigration and social cohesion, climate change, energy policy and the environment, defence and foreign policy.
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 1849544301
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Enoch at 100 is a critical reassessment of Enoch Powell's legacy by some of the leading political figures, writers and commentators of the current age. The book covers the role of government and the state of the economy, the European Union, constitutional reform, immigration and social cohesion, climate change, energy policy and the environment, defence and foreign policy.
The Evolution of the Gospel
Author: John Enoch Powell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300054217
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Many biblical scholars believe that the Gospel of Matthew was written after those of Mark and Luke. In this controversial book, an eminent politician who is also a distinguished classical scholar refutes this idea, using textual and literary criticism to assert that the Gospel of Matthew preceded the other gospels. Translating and analysing the original Greek source, Powell proceeds to concentrate upon the text of Matthew, as being the earliest form of the gospel that we possess, and to demonstrate how its peculiar characteristics can best be accounted for as being the result of insertions and manipulations, often theologically motivated. Powell argues that the Gospel of Matthew represents an attempted compromise between a pro-gentile book and a critical revision of that book produced for the judaising wing of the early Church, and that material intended to appeal to the followers of John the Baptist was also introduced. The Gospel of Matthew, though given the form of consecutive narrative, is, says Powell, essentially a theological debate carried on by means of allegory: was Jesus the Son of God or a Davidic king?
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300054217
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Many biblical scholars believe that the Gospel of Matthew was written after those of Mark and Luke. In this controversial book, an eminent politician who is also a distinguished classical scholar refutes this idea, using textual and literary criticism to assert that the Gospel of Matthew preceded the other gospels. Translating and analysing the original Greek source, Powell proceeds to concentrate upon the text of Matthew, as being the earliest form of the gospel that we possess, and to demonstrate how its peculiar characteristics can best be accounted for as being the result of insertions and manipulations, often theologically motivated. Powell argues that the Gospel of Matthew represents an attempted compromise between a pro-gentile book and a critical revision of that book produced for the judaising wing of the early Church, and that material intended to appeal to the followers of John the Baptist was also introduced. The Gospel of Matthew, though given the form of consecutive narrative, is, says Powell, essentially a theological debate carried on by means of allegory: was Jesus the Son of God or a Davidic king?
Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Author: Camilla Schofield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007941
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Enoch Powell's explosive rhetoric against black immigration and anti-discrimination law transformed the terrain of British race politics and cast a long shadow over British society. Using extensive archival research, Camilla Schofield offers a radical reappraisal of Powell's political career and insists that his historical significance is inseparable from the political generation he sought to represent. Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain follows Powell's trajectory from an officer in the British Raj to the centre of British politics and, finally, to his turn to Ulster Unionism. She argues that Powell and the mass movement against 'New Commonwealth' immigration that he inspired shed light on Britain's war generation, popular understandings of the welfare state and the significance of memories of war and empire in the making of postcolonial Britain. Through Powell, Schofield illuminates the complex relationship between British social democracy, racism and the politics of imperial decline in Britain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107007941
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Enoch Powell's explosive rhetoric against black immigration and anti-discrimination law transformed the terrain of British race politics and cast a long shadow over British society. Using extensive archival research, Camilla Schofield offers a radical reappraisal of Powell's political career and insists that his historical significance is inseparable from the political generation he sought to represent. Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain follows Powell's trajectory from an officer in the British Raj to the centre of British politics and, finally, to his turn to Ulster Unionism. She argues that Powell and the mass movement against 'New Commonwealth' immigration that he inspired shed light on Britain's war generation, popular understandings of the welfare state and the significance of memories of war and empire in the making of postcolonial Britain. Through Powell, Schofield illuminates the complex relationship between British social democracy, racism and the politics of imperial decline in Britain.
Enoch Powell
Author: Robert Shepherd
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
In this biography, Robert Shepherd puts the life and work of Enoch Powell in a new political, philosophical and emotional perspective. The book draws on interviews with Powell and on a wealth of new research.
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
In this biography, Robert Shepherd puts the life and work of Enoch Powell in a new political, philosophical and emotional perspective. The book draws on interviews with Powell and on a wealth of new research.
Freedom and Reality
Author: John Enoch Powell
Publisher: Arlington House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher: Arlington House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In the Shadow of Enoch Powell
Author: Shirin Hirsch
Publisher: Racism, Resistance and Social Change
ISBN: 9781526127396
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society.
Publisher: Racism, Resistance and Social Change
ISBN: 9781526127396
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate of crisis in British society.
The House of Lords in the Middle Ages
Author: John Enoch Powell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Lives and Afterlives of Enoch Powell
Author: Olivier Esteves
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367786410
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
50 years after Powell's self-styled detonation in his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, this volume brings together contributions from international scholars with insights from hitherto unexplored archives.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367786410
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
50 years after Powell's self-styled detonation in his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, this volume brings together contributions from international scholars with insights from hitherto unexplored archives.