State and Society

A Social and Political History of Britain, 1870-1997

Martin Pugh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

1999 | 2nd New edition
Hodder Arnold (Verlag)
978-0-340-71919-0 (ISBN)

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An interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era. It examines not only the change in the political and social spectrums but also those elements of continuity linking Margaret Thatcher era to the Blair epoch. It closes with an assessment of the dilemmas facing Britain at the dawn of the next century.

As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, "State and Society" has rapidly become one of the most respected and widely read introductions to the history of modern Britain. In this new edition, the account is taken beyond the downfall of Margaret Thatcher up to the ending of the long-running Conservative ascendancy with Labour's victory in the watershed 1997 election. Pugh examines not only the change in the political and social spectrums but also those elements of continuity linking the Thatcher era to the Blair epoch. He closes with an assessment of the dilemmas facing Britain at the dawn of the next century.

Part I The loss of confidence, 1870-1902: the retreat of the industrial revolution; not quite a democracy; the Victorian state and its people; Victorian values - myth and reality; the British nation - unity and division; isolation and expansion. Part II The reorientation - the emergence of the interventionist state, 1902-1918; the state, social welfare and the economy; the Liberal-Labour alliance; crisis and controversy in Edwardian Britain; politics and society in the Great War. Part III The period of confusion - collectivism versus capitalism, 1918-1940: the failure of Laissez-faire; mass democracy in an age of decline; the era of domesticity; Imperial climax and decline. Part IV The people's war: the Keynesian era; the permissive society; the loss of great-power status. Part V The era of reaction and decline, 1970-1992: the breakdown of the postwar consensus, 1970-1979; the era of Thatcherism; the downfall of Thatcherism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.8.1999
Reihe/Serie	Arnold History of Britain
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	740 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-340-71919-2 / 0340719192
ISBN-13	978-0-340-71919-0 / 9780340719190
Zustand	Neuware