The Steel Industry, 1939-1959
Author : Duncan Lyall Burn
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Steel industry and trade
ISBN :
Author : Duncan Lyall Burn
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Steel industry and trade
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Author : Roger Chickering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521834322
This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.
Author : Duncan Lyall Burn
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Iron industry and trade
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Author : Chris Ballinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1782250492
House of Lords reform is often characterised as unfinished business: a riddle that has been left unanswered since 1911. But rarely can an unanswered riddle have had so many answers offered, even though few have been accepted; indeed, when Viscount Cave was invited in the mid-1920s to lead a Cabinet committee on Lords reform, he complained of finding 'the ground covered by an embarrassing mass of proposals'.That embarrassing mass increased throughout the twentieth century. Much ink has been spilled on what should be done with the upper House of Parliament; much less ink has been expended on why reform has been so difficult to achieve. This book analyses in detail the principal attempts to reform the House of Lords. Starting with the Parliament Act of 1911 the book examines the century of non-reform that followed, drawing upon substantial archival sources, many of which have been under-utilised until now. These sources challenge many of the existing understandings of the history of House of Lords reform and the reasons for success or failure of reform attempts. The book begins by arguing against the popular idea that the 1911 Act was intended by its supporters to be a temporary measure. 'No one – peers included – should be allowed to pronounce about the future of the House of Lords without reading Chris Ballinger's authoritative, shrewd and readable account about reform attempts over the past century. He punctures several widely-held myths and claims in the current debate.' Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE Director, Institute for Government and former Hansard Society chair 'This is at once an impeccably researched academic study, and a thoroughly readable account loaded with lessons for today's would-be Lords reformers.' Lord (David) Lipsey
Author : Henk Overbeek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000776522
First published in 1990, Global Capitalism and National Decline is a major contribution to the study of British political and economic decline. The author concentrates on the global nature of capitalism as the context for the development of national capitalism, and on the relationship between internal and external factors. A long-term view of British politics enables him to demonstrate that competing popular explanations of Britain’s crisis and the rise of Thatcherism in response to it, are in fact interconnected. The long decline of Britain originating in the 19th century, the inherent weakness of the post-1945 settlement, and the critical events of 1970s, acquire their fullest meaning when seen as different ‘layers’ of one and the same historical process. Henk Overbeek takes the story of Britain’s decline through to Margaret Thatcher’s tenth anniversary in office. His book will be invaluable to scholars and students of economics, politics, and history. it offers a clear perspective on the problems of national decline within a global context, and on Britain’s position in Europe and in the wider world.
Author : David S. Landes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521534024
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Author : Michael Foot
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 057128082X
Michael Foot's two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan (1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist, indelibly associated with the founding of the National Health Service, - is one of the major political biographies of the last century. It is the life of an inspirational politician, written by one who knew and unabashedly admired him. Volume I, first published in 1962, describes Bevan's life from his birth in Tredegar in the South Wales Valleys, through his abortive schooling, his employment at a colliery and the subsequent embrace of socialism that would make him a leader among South Wales miners. It follows his path to the House of Commons as a Labour MP with a fast-rising reputation as a defender of the working class; and his marriage in 1934 to fellow firebrand MP Jennie Lee. The volume closes with Labour's landslide election victory of 1945, and Bevan's appointment as Minister of Health.
Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415379229
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Joyce M. Bellamy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1993-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 134907845X
Includes radicals of the Chartist and earlier periods, trade unionists and other radicals after 1850. The book is especially concerned with 20th-century activists and intellectuals, notably those whose formative years or main political life was spent during the period between the two World Wars.
Author : Yves Meny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110921553