Thatcher and Thatcherism
Thatcherism produced dramatic change in most aspects of public life, both in contemporary Britain and abroad. Thatcher and Thatcherism surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Drawing extensively on political memoirs and centring on the career of M...
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| Médium: | Livre papier |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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New York :
Routledge
1997.
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| Edice: | Making of the contemporary world
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Shrnutí: | Thatcherism produced dramatic change in most aspects of public life, both in contemporary Britain and abroad. Thatcher and Thatcherism surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Drawing extensively on political memoirs and centring on the career of Margaret Thatcher, Eric J. Evans proposes that the ideological coherence and originality of Thatcherism was illu-sory. He argues that Thatcherism was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet its ob-jectives. He includes discussion of: privatisation and the fate of the trade unions ; Britain's slow economic decline versus Thatcher's delusions of British grandeur ; the legacy of the Falklands and of Britain's approach to Europe ; education, the civil service and crime ; the contribution of the poll tax fiasco to her fall from power. With a full bibliography and explanation of the economic, social and historical context of Britain in the late 1970s and '80s, Thatcher and Thatcherism offers an invaluable guide to the complexities and paradoxes of contemporary Britain. |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 vol. (147 p) : couv. ill.. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliografie: | Bibliogr. p. [136]-141. Notes bibliogr. en fin d'ouvrage. Index |
| ISBN: | 0415136946 (br.) |