Author : David M. McCourt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0472052217
After the fall of its empire, Britain still holds sway
Author : Bill Coxall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1997-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349260134
The election of New Labour in 1997 closes a long chapter in British political history. At this moment of dramatic change, this book combines an incisive thematic discussion of all the key policy areas with succinct overviews of British governments since 1945, the rise and fall of consensus politics and ideological perspectives on recent British history. Extensive use has been made of illustrative material, including photographs, cartoons, graphs, tables and exhibits. Written by the authors of the best-selling Contemporary British Politics.
Author : Peter Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134571518
This book offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, very much at odds to the dominant view in contemporary scholarship. The author argues that postwar British politics, up to and including the Blair Government, can be largely characterised in terms of continuity and a gradual evolution from a period of conflict over the primary aims of government strategy to one of recent relative consensus. This book provides a provocative and challenging account of the historical background to the election of the Blair Government and will be of interest to a wide audience.
Author : David Dutton
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631162780
Author : Phil Tinline
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1787388840
Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.
Author : Paul Addison
Publisher : Random House
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1446424219
The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill and focus on the task of war. But the war years witnessed a radical shift in political power - dramatically expressed in Labour's decisive electoral victory in 1945. In his acclaimed study, Paul Addison reconstructs and interprets the five-year wartime coalition, and traces this sea-change from its roots in the thirties, to the powerful spirit of post-war rebuilding. The Road to 1945 is an imaginative, brilliantly written and landmark work, underpinned by a powerful and expertly researched argument.
Author : Geoffrey Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509523898
Brexit has changed everything - from our government, to our economy and principal trading relationship, to the organization of our state. This watershed moment, which surprised most observers and mobilized previously apathetic sections of the electorate, is already transforming British politics in profound and lasting ways. In this incisive book, leading analysts of UK and EU politics Geoffrey Evans and Anand Menon step back from the immediacy and hyperbole of the Referendum to explain what happened on 23 June 2016, and why. Brexit, they argue, was the product of both long-term dissatisfaction with the EU and a gradual breakdown in the relationship between parties and voters that spawned detachment, disinterest and disenchantment. Exploring its subsequent impact on the June 2017 General Election, they reveal the extent to which Brexit has shattered the contemporary equilibrium of British politics. These reverberations will continue to be felt for a very long time and could pose a real danger to the health of British democracy if the government fails to deliver on the promises linked to Brexit.
Author : Robert Crowcroft
Publisher :
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 019882369X
The tale of the relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War, exploring the interaction between Westminster and a world primed to explode.
Author : R. Adams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1993-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0230375634
In this book historian R.J.Q. Adams examines the policy of appeasement as practiced by British Governments in the inter-war years - a programme widely praised in its day and frequently condemned as wrong-headed and even wicked ever since. In this thoroughly accessible work, he reveals the motivations and goals of the men who practiced appeasement as well as of those who opposed it, and makes clear the road to Munich - and to war.
Author : Thomas Rodger
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783274680
Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership.
