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The Radical Right in Britain (British History in Perspective)
by Alan Sykes
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2004-11-19)
ISBN: 0333599241
EAN: 9780333599242
Dewy Decimal #: 320.5209410904
Paperback: 176 pages
SKU: B431-1262
Condition: As New
Comments: UNREAD but may have minor imperfections such as a crease or mark. In stock - quick dispatch, from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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Concerning
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-07-19
3 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Like the other reviewers, I have never read Sykes' book but feel compelled to intervene over their absurdities. It is of great concern that an academic study of an important historical issue is being sabotaged by whatever perculiar right-wing sect has targeted 'The Radical Right in Britian', published by an imprint know for their quality of modern research. (It is laughable though... can they really have expected to have looked like anything other than an orchestrated and agressive political mob?) Such lack of education, no doubt aggravited by whatever strange cult-like leaders they adhere to, is seriously damaging for publci understanding. It is a FACT that British Nationalism has utilised St George's Cross and emblems of supposed 'Englishness'. There is no dispute. A British nationalist almost invariably understands the British Union as a rightful imposition of a culture originating from England. There are no pictures of Welsh nationalists on the cover because they have never been involved in British nationalism. It is furthermore almost impossible to imagine an English nationalism contingent and seperate from a British nationalism in todays world, since any concept of an English 'race' or 'people' would be even more couched in myth and ahistorical understanding than conventional nationalism already is. What could the 'English race' possibly be?
I encourage all who read this actively to counter and check such dangerous and damaging assertations and to protect enquiery and historical knowledge,
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Radical Right British
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-07-06
0 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am an Englishman, never ever thought myself to be British, this book talks about the radical right in Britain and yet has the Cross of St George on it's front cover WHY !
Yet again, people assume that to be English and proud then you must be a radical and from the right.
As someone who comes from a Polish Jewish immigrant family I have never considered myself left or right - I am just English and proud of that.
I won't ever buy this book and will ensure that all of the people I know throughout the English community don't buy it either.
Yet again more misrepresentation by a author who confuses England with Britain.
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England or Britain
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-06-17
0 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
Why does the title have the word Britain in it but the English flag on the cover? Its like saying the BNP is an English party, which its not, its a Unionist party.
Get this book changed or get it of off the shelves, otherwise I will not purchase any more items from Amazon.
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Confused author or something more sinister?
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-06-16
0 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
I agree with the previous reviewer. The author is writing about Britain but he uses the English flag on the cover. I have not read this book and I do not intend to because I'm sure it would be a waste of effort. Why? Well, if the author of a book about Britain does not know that the Cross of St George is the flag of England he should not be writing such a book because he is demonstably ignorant. However, if he is conflating English and British for other reasons that is outrageous.
Post script: the reviewer James R A Norrie is as confused as the author given that the leader of the BNP is a Welshman!
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Misrepresentation
Rating (1)
Date: 2007-06-16
2 out of 12 customers found this reveiw helpful
Just take a look at the cover. What you see is the English, not British flag.
They are not the same thing. This book is about the BNP, the BRITISH National Party - ergo, why are we not seeing the British flag? Unfortunately, this book is as confused as the cover. Merrily throwing in English and British Nationalism into the same pot. If so, then why doesn't it cover Welsh or Scots Nationalism? Simply because, the author is anti-nationalist and so is this book.
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