Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Based on a vast range of previously unpublished material, this book is the only detailed and comprehensive account of the policies, programs, and personalities of the powerful and influential Attlee government. Morgan provides in-depth portraits of key figures of the period and compares Britain during these years with other postwar European nations.
Author : Martin Francis
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719048333
Francis examines the relationship between socialist ideas and the policies of the 1945-51 Labour government, insisting that Labour ministers applied specifically socialist precepts to the exercise of power during this period.
Author : Richard Toye
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0861932625
An exploration of Labour's 1931 pledge to create a planned socialist economy and the reasons for its failure to do so. In the general election of 1931, the Labour Party campaigned on the slogan "Plan or Perish". The party's pledge to create a planned socialist economy was a novelty, and marked the rejection of the gradualist, evolutionary socialism to which Labour had adhered under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald. Although heavily defeated in that election, Labour stuck to its commitment. The Attlee government came to power in 1945 determined to plan comprehensively. Yet, the aspiration to create a fully planned economy was not met. This book explores the origins and evolution of the promise, in order to explain why it was not fulfilled. RICHARD TOYE lectures in history at Homerton College, Cambridge.
Author : Kevin Jefferys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1317898931
In 1945 the Labour Government set about a major transformation of British society, Dr Jefferys's analyses the main changes and relates them to debates within the Labour party, on the nature of its aims and how best to achieve them.
Author : Michael Jago
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781849546836
The story of an 'accidental Prime Minister' and his post-war reforms.
Author : Batrouni, Dimitri
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1529205085
From Attlee to the birth of New Labour, and the advent of Corbynism, this book gives a lively account of the ideological developments and dramas in the Labour Party in recent decades. Batrouni delves into the totemic battles between hard and soft left, examining the destructive and creative elements of key periods of Labour’s ideological exhaustion and ideational confusion. Providing powerful insights from interviews with some of the most influential thinkers, advisors and MPs in the party, he goes on to examine the phenomenal emergence of Corbynism, the impact of Brexit and what lies ahead for the party.
Author : Peter Hennessy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2006-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0141929324
The first volume of Hennessy's postwar history of Britain concerns an age dominated by the shadow of war. With the beginnings of the Cold War, the foundations of the new Europe and the granting of independence of former colonies, Britain was forced to negotiate a new place in the world. It was also a time of rationing and of rebuilding, marked by the founding of the NHS and the welfare state. This comprehensive history embraces both high politics and everyday experience. It recreates the mood of the time and tells us where people lived, how they worked and what they wore.
Author : Andrew Thorpe
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Andrew Thorpe's book rapidly established itself as the leading single-volume history of the Labour Party. This second edition takes the story to 2000 with a new chapter on the development of "New Labour" and the Blair government. The reasons for the party's formation, its aims and achievements, its failure to achieve office more often, and its remarkable recovery since its problems in the 1980s, as well as key events and leading personalities, are all discussed.
Author : William Roger Louis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198229605
With intellectual rigor and careful attention to recently released papers, Wm. Roger Louis's study asks: Why did Britain's colonial empire begin to collapse in 1945 and how did the post-war Labour government attempt to sustain a vision of the old Empire through imperialism in the Middle East?
Author : Clement R. Attlee
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "As It Happened" by Clement R. Attlee. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
