Making Thatcher's Britain /
Making Thatcher's Britain /
[edited by] Ben Jackson, Robert Saunders.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: varieties of Thatcherism / Making Thatcherism: 'Crisis? What crisis?': Thatcherism and the seventies / The think-tank archipelago: Thatcherism and neo-liberalism / Thatcher, monetarism and the politics of inflation / Thatcherism, morality and religion / 'A nation or no nation?': Enoch Powell and Thatcherism / Thatcher's Britain: Thatcher and the women's vote / Margaret Thatcher and the decline of class politics / Thatcherism, unionism and nationalism: a comparative study of Scotland and Wales / 'Just another country?': the Irish question in the Thatcher years / Thatcherism and the Wider World: Thatcherism and the Cold War / Europe and America / Decolonisation and imperial aftershocks: the Thatcher years / Ben Jackson and Robert Saunders -- Robert Saunders; Ben Jackson; Jim Tomlinson; Matthew Grimley; Camilla Schofield -- Laura Beers; Jon Lawrence and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite; David Howell; Richard Finlay; Marc Mulholland -- Richard Vinen; Andrew Gamble; Stephen Howe -- Prepared by Peter Sloman. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. Defiant dominoes: working miners and the 1984-85 strike / 9. 10. Part III. 11. 12. 13. Appendices /
"Margaret Thatcher was one of the most controversial figures of modern times. Her governments inspired hatred and veneration in equal measure and her legacy remains fiercely contested. Yet assessments of the Thatcher era are often divorced from any larger historical perspective. This book draws together leading historians to locate Thatcher and Thatcherism within the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain. It explores the social and economic crises of the 1970s; Britain's relationships with Europe, the Commonwealth and the United States; and the different experiences of Thatcherism in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The book assesses the impact of the Thatcher era on class and gender and situates Thatcherism within the Cold War, the end of Empire and the rise of an Anglo-American 'New Right'. Drawing on the latest available sources, it opens a wide-ranging debate about the Thatcher era and its place in modern British history"--
9781139525947 (electronic bk.) 1139525948 (electronic bk.) 1139528335 (electronic bk.) 9781139528337 (electronic bk.) 1283575043 9781283575041 9780511998164 (electronic bk.) 0511998163 (electronic bk.) 9781139530613 (ebook) 1139530615 (ebook)
Thatcher, Margaret--Influence.
Thatcher, Margaret.
Thatcher, Margaret 1925-2013
Since 1945
HISTORY--Great Britain.--Europe
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Sozialer Wandel
Great Britain--Politics and government--1979-1997.
Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-
Grande-Bretagne--Conditions sociales--1945-
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Electronic books.
DA589.7 / .M365 2012eb
941.085/8
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: varieties of Thatcherism / Making Thatcherism: 'Crisis? What crisis?': Thatcherism and the seventies / The think-tank archipelago: Thatcherism and neo-liberalism / Thatcher, monetarism and the politics of inflation / Thatcherism, morality and religion / 'A nation or no nation?': Enoch Powell and Thatcherism / Thatcher's Britain: Thatcher and the women's vote / Margaret Thatcher and the decline of class politics / Thatcherism, unionism and nationalism: a comparative study of Scotland and Wales / 'Just another country?': the Irish question in the Thatcher years / Thatcherism and the Wider World: Thatcherism and the Cold War / Europe and America / Decolonisation and imperial aftershocks: the Thatcher years / Ben Jackson and Robert Saunders -- Robert Saunders; Ben Jackson; Jim Tomlinson; Matthew Grimley; Camilla Schofield -- Laura Beers; Jon Lawrence and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite; David Howell; Richard Finlay; Marc Mulholland -- Richard Vinen; Andrew Gamble; Stephen Howe -- Prepared by Peter Sloman. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. Defiant dominoes: working miners and the 1984-85 strike / 9. 10. Part III. 11. 12. 13. Appendices /
"Margaret Thatcher was one of the most controversial figures of modern times. Her governments inspired hatred and veneration in equal measure and her legacy remains fiercely contested. Yet assessments of the Thatcher era are often divorced from any larger historical perspective. This book draws together leading historians to locate Thatcher and Thatcherism within the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain. It explores the social and economic crises of the 1970s; Britain's relationships with Europe, the Commonwealth and the United States; and the different experiences of Thatcherism in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The book assesses the impact of the Thatcher era on class and gender and situates Thatcherism within the Cold War, the end of Empire and the rise of an Anglo-American 'New Right'. Drawing on the latest available sources, it opens a wide-ranging debate about the Thatcher era and its place in modern British history"--
9781139525947 (electronic bk.) 1139525948 (electronic bk.) 1139528335 (electronic bk.) 9781139528337 (electronic bk.) 1283575043 9781283575041 9780511998164 (electronic bk.) 0511998163 (electronic bk.) 9781139530613 (ebook) 1139530615 (ebook)
Thatcher, Margaret--Influence.
Thatcher, Margaret.
Thatcher, Margaret 1925-2013
Since 1945
HISTORY--Great Britain.--Europe
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Sozialer Wandel
Great Britain--Politics and government--1979-1997.
Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-
Grande-Bretagne--Conditions sociales--1945-
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Electronic books.
DA589.7 / .M365 2012eb
941.085/8