BookAuthors: Moran , Michael (2017)
Contents: Introduction: Imagining and Reimagining `Britain' -- State Created -- A Providential People -- A Messianic State -- Providentialism Without Religion -- Triumph of the Metropolitan British State -- Social Citizenship and British Identity: Providentialism Without Empire -- Statecraft and State Mission -- Notes -- State in Decay -- Decay of British Social Citizenship -- Decay of the Metropolitan Elite -- Decay of the World State -- Decay of the Unionist Settlement -- Inventing and Reinventing the State -- Notes -- State Recreated -- Creative Statecraft and the Reinvention of Britain -- Recasting the Post-War Settlement -- Reshaping State -- Civil Society Relations -- Reshaping ... 
