Table of Contents

Introduction
1: International Relations
2: Economics
3: Immigration
4: Europe
5: Northern Ireland
6: Conclusion
Index

About the Author

Paul Corthorn is a Reader in Modern British History at Queen's University Belfast. He has published widely on twentieth century British political history, including In the Shadow of the Dictators: The British Left in the 1930s (2006) and The British Labour Party and the Wider World: Domestic Politics, Internationalism and Foreign Policy (2008), co-edited with Jonathan Davis. He lives in Belfast with his family.

Reviews

Contributes important new insights to [the] wider appraisal of Powell.
*Nick Pearce, Financial Times*

Corthorn's rigour is impressive ... [this book is] a valuable guide to a figure who looms over Brexit Britain.
*Christoper Kissane, Irish Times*

[A] welcome and timely study...
*Colin Kidd, New Statesman*

[A] superb new study.
*Richard Toye, Times Literary Supplement*

The task of tracing the course of Powell's ideas in all their contortions and contradictions, and assessing their impact, is not easy. But Paul Corthorn accomplishes it admirably. His book is clear, coherent and concise. It is based on a vast amount of reading and research. All told, it is a model of scholarship.
*Piers Brendon, Literary Review*

A crisp and compelling piece of work.
*Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books*

Written in an engaging style, this book offers much food for thought about a personality whose relevance to British politics is unlikely to disappear any time soon.
*Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association*

Enoch Powell remains the single most controversial politician in modern British history. Yet more than half a century after his most incendiary speech, his influence is arguably greater than ever. In this splendidly learned, astute and provocative study, Paul Corthorn invites us to look more closely at what Powell said and believed. With scrupulous care and attention to detail, he examines the roots and legacy of Powell's ideas, both placing him in his historical context and exploring his afterlives in British politics. Mercifully free from academic jargon and armchair moralising, this is a gripping and colourful read and a model of historical scholarship.
*Dominic Sandbrook, author of State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974*

This is a highly readable and informative text that will appeal to scholars and general readers. It portrays Powell not as the caricature of liberal nightmares or far-right dreams, but as a sophisticated and idiosyncratic political thinker whose ideational content is interesting both in its own right and as a lens through which to view post-war British politics.
*Joseph J. Himsworth, The Journal of British Studies*

An authoritative and well-informed account of [Powell's] beliefs and philosophy - their origins, their substance and their development.
*Pete Dorey, Cercles*