Author : Andrew Gamble
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1994-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333614410
This is an account of Britain's rise and fall, and an introduction to the main explanations of decline and political strategies for reversing it. The book has been updated and has a new concluding chapter which assesses the state of debate and the British economy after the Thatcher decade.
Author : Richard English
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2000-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780333679654
Protagonists in the heated debate about British decline here set out their current views and respond to critics. The second half of the book builds on these chapters by systematically examining key themes and issues.
Author : George L Bernstein
Publisher : Random House
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1446449491
This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness during the post-war era: the myth of decline and the pervasiveness of American influence. The political narrative is about the struggle to maintain a power that was illusory and, from 1960 on, to reverse an economic decline that was nearly as illusory. The British economy had its problems, which are fully analyzed; however, they were counterbalanced by an unparalleled prosperity. At the same time, there was a social and cultural revolution which resulted in a more exciting, dynamic society. While there was much American influence, there was no Americanization. American influences were incorporated with many others into a new and less stodgy British culture. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this groundbreaking book finds that the story of Britain since the war is marked not by decline but by progress on almost all fronts.
Author : Andrew Gamble
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780333614402
This is an account of Britain's rise and fall, and an introduction to the main explanations of decline and political strategies for reversing it. The book has been updated and has a new concluding chapter which assesses the state of debate and the British economy after the Thatcher decade.
Author : Ian Hall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520289498
In just three decades, Great Britain’s place in world politics was transformed. In 1945, it was the world’s preeminent imperial power with global interests. By 1975, Britain languished in political stasis and economic recession, clinging to its alliance with the United States and membership in the European Community. Amid this turmoil, British intellectuals struggled to make sense of their country’s decline and the transformed world in which they found themselves. This book assesses their responses to this predicament and explores the different ways British thinkers came to understand the new international relations of the postwar period.
Author : P. F. Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521563178
The theme of British economic decline is inescapable in contemporary debates about Britain's economic performance and sense of national identity. Understanding Decline is a serious contribution to an important argument, approached in a way that is accessible not only to the specialist academic market but to students of economics, history and politics. Barry Supple, to whom the volume is dedicated, when Professor of Economic History at Cambridge was concerned with various aspects of this historical problem. Indeed, his 1993 Presidential Address to the Economic History Society, 'Fear of failing', already a classic, is reprinted here as a highly effective keynote essay. Other essays pick up this theme in diverse but essentially unified ways, seeking to assess British economic performance in different ways over the past two centuries. They include case-studies through which the reality of decline can be explored, while differing perceptions of decline are examined in a number of essays dealing with ideas and policy issues.
Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0307388417
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
Author : Jim Tomlinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317875427
The key aim of this new book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in such ways as to advance particular political causes.
Author : David Coates
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : M.W. Kirby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136616748
This book was first published in 1981.
