We are said to be living in an age of anger and national populist movements are often identified as its political manifestation. In Populism Michael Burleigh explores this new global era drawing on his Engelsberg Lectures. The first chapter explores the nature of mass anger mainly in Europe and the US how might popular discontent be artificially incited and sustained by elite figures claiming to speak for the common people The second chapter compares the difficult aftermaths of empire in Britain