The Enduring Crown CommonwealthAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Monday 15 May 2023
Description
The popular Netflix series The Crown covers the tumultuous period from the Queenâ?Ts accession in 1952 to the present day, and so does this book, which explores the rise, decline andâ?"to someâ?"unexpected rebound of the historic UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand alliance. While a post-Brexit and post-Elizabethan Britain seeks a new role in todayâ?Ts volatile world, its traditional partner countries also recognise the logic of reinvigorating their relationship, based on a multitude of still-strong cultural, economic, political, and military ties, including the monarchy as a uniquely shared global, and not merely British, institution. But this wasnâ?Tt always the case. Although in the 1950s commentators spoke of a new "Elizabethan Age" with much postwar hope across the Commonwealth, that optimism quickly faded. By the 1970s, many thought Britain washed up and that Crown and Commonwealth ties and allegiance were becoming obsolete. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the four countries increasingly went their separate ways. So, a groggy time-traveller from that period appearing in London, Toronto, Sydney, or Auckland today would be taken by surprise by the durability of the Crown, even as it has passed to King Charles, and the growing reconvergence of the four "CANZUK" realms in terms of trade, defence, foreign policy coordination, freedom of movement, mutual recognition of professional qualifications, and other new or revived links. This book evocatively tells the whole story of where we are, whatâ?Ts possible for the future, and not least how we got here. In todayâ?Ts age of global instability and raw power politics, this renewed Anglosphere Crown Commonwealth alliance is more important and relevant than ever.
You may also like ...
by
Hardback
15 May 2023
Politics and government
€35.10
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
09 Feb 2023
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
€113.49
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
21 Dec 2022
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
€26.90
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
18 Nov 2021
Peace studies and conflict resolution
€251.55
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews