The Rise of Enoch Powell
Author: Paul Foot
Publisher: Cornmarket Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 148
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Author: Paul Foot
Publisher: Cornmarket Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Corthorn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0198747152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest 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.
Author: Tom Stacey
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 216
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Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Olivier Esteves
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0429805160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK50 years after Enoch Powell’s self-styled detonation in the form of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, this volume brings together contributions from international scholars in the field of history, political science and British studies, with new insights from hitherto unexplored archives. It investigates some of the key national and grassroots parameters which, from above and from below, led to Powell’s violent irruption into the immigration debate in 1968. It apprehends Powell as a political and intellectual figure firmly established in the British Tory tradition, a tradition which was to shape the 1970s debate on race and immigration, and be avidly instrumentalised by the British far-right. It also analyses Powell’s positioning vis-à-vis the Irish question, and apprehends Powell’s late-1960s moment from an international standpoint, as one of the early stages of the conservative revolution which was to culminate in 2016 with Trump’s election. Lastly, this book weaves a thread between Powell and another recent political detonation: Brexit.
Author: Camilla Schofield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-03
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1107007941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnoch 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.
Author: Saxonshieldwall
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-11-26
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781505222678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription Enoch Powell was right due to religious and political radicalisation. Rivers of Blood uncovers what really causes the rise of radical factionalism with a clever compilation of quotations and succinct, waffle free explanations. With quotations from the Old Testament, New Testament, The Qur'an, The ABC of Communism and Mein kampf it shows how religious and political radicalisation spring from the same source. These quotations when taken together as a whole allow the reader to see first hand just what it is that the radical factions are up to and how other factions are connected and influenced by this. Then a clear correlation becomes evident. The events of the past are being repeated today and it isn't happening by accident. It's not a commentary on the "rivers of blood" speech or a biography about Enoch Powell. It's why Enoch was right! From the back cover "Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see." Enoch Powell Speech to the Turves Green Girls School, Northfield, Birmingham (13 June 1970)
Author: Lord Howard
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1849544301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnoch 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.
Author: Simon Heffer
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1072
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive, controversial, authroised biography of 1 of the defining political figures of postwar Britain. There have been many biographies of Enoch Powell - this will be the 7th or the 8th. They testify at least to the fascination we have for him, but none will be a patch on Simon Heffer's, the only 1 written with full access to all his personal and public papers, by 1 of Britain's leading conservative commentators and, with his acclaimed book on Carlyle published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1 of it's most promising biographers. The book will cover all aspects of Powell's life : his Midlands childhood, his teaching by A.E.Housman, his appointment at the age of 25 as professor of Greek at the University of Adelaide, his writing of poetry, his love for an aristocratic Irish woman, his resignation from Macmillans cabinet, the Rivers of Blood speech, and his spiritual Godfathering of Margaret Thatcher. It will also, effectively, be a history of postwar British politics from Powell's perspective, and should be 1 of the highlights of the Autumn 1998 season.
Author: Shirin Hirsch
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1526127407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.