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Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Author: Schofield Camilla
A radically revisionist account of the life and political career of Enoch Powell.
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Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Publication date: 10-2013
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Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain
Publication date: 11-2015
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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.
Introduction; 1. Conservative war, 1938–47; 2. Liberal war, 1947–60; 3. Without war? Commonwealth and consensus; 4. The war within, 1968–70; 5. Naming the crisis; Conclusion; Postscript: Enoch Powell and Thatcherism.
Camilla Schofield is a lecturer in Imperial History at the University of East Anglia and teaches classes on collective memory, British imperialism and modern Britain. She acts as reviews editor for the journal History.
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