Global Statesman : : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / / David M. Webber.
Revisits Gordon Brown's decade as the New Labour Chancellor and his crucial but neglected attempts to eliminate global povertyFrom DFID to Brown's own faith and social philosophy, Webber explores, problematises and critiques Brown's policies on overseas aid, Third-World debt and addre...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 B/W tables |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9781474423571 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)615558 (OCoLC)1306539859 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Webber, David M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / David M. Webber. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2017 1 online resource (288 p.) : 7 B/W tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 A Son of the Manse with a Missionary Zeal -- 2 A World of Challenge and Opportunity -- 3 Capitalising upon Globalisation -- 4 Building a ‘New Jerusalem’ -- 5 A Matter of Life and Debt -- 6 Morals and Medicines -- 7 Coming to the Aid of Africa -- 8 Saving the World? -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Revisits Gordon Brown's decade as the New Labour Chancellor and his crucial but neglected attempts to eliminate global povertyFrom DFID to Brown's own faith and social philosophy, Webber explores, problematises and critiques Brown's policies on overseas aid, Third-World debt and addressing HIV/AIDS.Drawing on nearly two decades' worth of primary research, including an exhaustive survey of speeches and policy statements made by Gordon Brown both before and during his time in government, David Webber provides a body of evidence currently absent from the New Labour/UK politics literature.Discover the level of influence that Brown was able to wield in international financial institutions such as the World Bank and IMF; Ed Balls' influence on Brown from the early 1990s; and the revelatory finding that Brown’s famous ‘surprise’ decision to hand over monetary policy to the Bank of England was, in fact, made at least four years before New Labour even came to power.Key FeaturesUniquely focuses on how Brown sought to carve out his own personal place upon the world stageReveals that the newly created Department for International Development (DFID) was effectively subsumed into the Treasury rather than the Foreign Office – so that Brown could control their policy design and outputShows how demands for social justice made by civil society groups were ‘matched’ by Brown’s own faith and social philosophy, becoming co-opted and recycled into his international development policiesProblematises the ‘missionary zeal’ of Brown; his post-colonial mindset and ‘white saviour’ complex, and his tendency to offer top-down universal solutions to the global SouthCritiques the failure of the Chancellor to take account of, let alone address, the systemic inequalities created by the neoliberal development that Brown himself sought to implement Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Politics. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110781403 print 9781474423564 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474423571?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474423571 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474423571/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Webber, David M., Webber, David M., |
spellingShingle |
Webber, David M., Webber, David M., Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 A Son of the Manse with a Missionary Zeal -- 2 A World of Challenge and Opportunity -- 3 Capitalising upon Globalisation -- 4 Building a ‘New Jerusalem’ -- 5 A Matter of Life and Debt -- 6 Morals and Medicines -- 7 Coming to the Aid of Africa -- 8 Saving the World? -- Bibliography -- Index |
author_facet |
Webber, David M., Webber, David M., |
author_variant |
d m w dm dmw d m w dm dmw |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Webber, David M., |
title |
Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / |
title_sub |
How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / |
title_full |
Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / David M. Webber. |
title_fullStr |
Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / David M. Webber. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / David M. Webber. |
title_auth |
Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 A Son of the Manse with a Missionary Zeal -- 2 A World of Challenge and Opportunity -- 3 Capitalising upon Globalisation -- 4 Building a ‘New Jerusalem’ -- 5 A Matter of Life and Debt -- 6 Morals and Medicines -- 7 Coming to the Aid of Africa -- 8 Saving the World? -- Bibliography -- Index |
title_new |
Global Statesman : |
title_sort |
global statesman : how gordon brown took new labour to the world / |
publisher |
Edinburgh University Press, |
publishDate |
2022 |
physical |
1 online resource (288 p.) : 7 B/W tables |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 A Son of the Manse with a Missionary Zeal -- 2 A World of Challenge and Opportunity -- 3 Capitalising upon Globalisation -- 4 Building a ‘New Jerusalem’ -- 5 A Matter of Life and Debt -- 6 Morals and Medicines -- 7 Coming to the Aid of Africa -- 8 Saving the World? -- Bibliography -- Index |
isbn |
9781474423571 9783110781403 9781474423564 |
url |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474423571?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474423571 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474423571/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
300 - Social sciences |
dewey-tens |
320 - Political science |
dewey-ones |
320 - Political science |
dewey-full |
320.941090511 |
dewey-sort |
3320.941090511 |
dewey-raw |
320.941090511 |
dewey-search |
320.941090511 |
doi_str_mv |
10.1515/9781474423571?locatt=mode:legacy |
oclc_num |
1306539859 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT webberdavidm globalstatesmanhowgordonbrowntooknewlabourtotheworld |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)615558 (OCoLC)1306539859 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Global Statesman : How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
_version_ |
1770176924821225472 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04657nam a22006495i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9781474423571</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20220629043637.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">220629t20222017stk fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781474423571</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.1515/9781474423571</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)615558</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1306539859</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">stk</subfield><subfield code="c">GB-SCT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">POL011000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">320.941090511</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Webber, David M., </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Global Statesman :</subfield><subfield code="b">How Gordon Brown Took New Labour to the World /</subfield><subfield code="c">David M. Webber.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Edinburgh : </subfield><subfield code="b">Edinburgh University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2022]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2017</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (288 p.) :</subfield><subfield code="b">7 B/W tables</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgements -- </subfield><subfield code="t">List of Abbreviations -- </subfield><subfield code="t">1 A Son of the Manse with a Missionary Zeal -- </subfield><subfield code="t">2 A World of Challenge and Opportunity -- </subfield><subfield code="t">3 Capitalising upon Globalisation -- </subfield><subfield code="t">4 Building a ‘New Jerusalem’ -- </subfield><subfield code="t">5 A Matter of Life and Debt -- </subfield><subfield code="t">6 Morals and Medicines -- </subfield><subfield code="t">7 Coming to the Aid of Africa -- </subfield><subfield code="t">8 Saving the World? -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Bibliography -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Revisits Gordon Brown's decade as the New Labour Chancellor and his crucial but neglected attempts to eliminate global povertyFrom DFID to Brown's own faith and social philosophy, Webber explores, problematises and critiques Brown's policies on overseas aid, Third-World debt and addressing HIV/AIDS.Drawing on nearly two decades' worth of primary research, including an exhaustive survey of speeches and policy statements made by Gordon Brown both before and during his time in government, David Webber provides a body of evidence currently absent from the New Labour/UK politics literature.Discover the level of influence that Brown was able to wield in international financial institutions such as the World Bank and IMF; Ed Balls' influence on Brown from the early 1990s; and the revelatory finding that Brown’s famous ‘surprise’ decision to hand over monetary policy to the Bank of England was, in fact, made at least four years before New Labour even came to power.Key FeaturesUniquely focuses on how Brown sought to carve out his own personal place upon the world stageReveals that the newly created Department for International Development (DFID) was effectively subsumed into the Treasury rather than the Foreign Office – so that Brown could control their policy design and outputShows how demands for social justice made by civil society groups were ‘matched’ by Brown’s own faith and social philosophy, becoming co-opted and recycled into his international development policiesProblematises the ‘missionary zeal’ of Brown; his post-colonial mindset and ‘white saviour’ complex, and his tendency to offer top-down universal solutions to the global SouthCritiques the failure of the Chancellor to take account of, let alone address, the systemic inequalities created by the neoliberal development that Brown himself sought to implement</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Politics.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110781403</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9781474423564</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474423571?locatt=mode:legacy</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474423571</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474423571/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-078140-3 Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017</subfield><subfield code="b">2017</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_SN</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_SN</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |