Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.
Accounts of enmity in politics and government -- Competition, antagonism, and enmity -- Patterns of enmity: varieties of narrative -- Contexts of enmity narratives -- The language and imagery of enmity -- Telling the enmity narrative -- Enemies of the people -- Demonisation: the frenzy of enmity -- Narratives of contention: the case of party politics in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Britain -- Enmity narratives, politics, and peacefulness