Thatcher's Secret War (eBook)

Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Clive Bloom (Autor)

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2015 | 2. Auflage
320 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-5800-4 (ISBN)

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'Scary but enlightening' - Christopher Stone Margaret Thatcher remains one of the United Kingdom's most polarising prime ministers. This provocative investigation sheds light on the secret, internal 'cold war' that she waged against 'the enemy within'; everyone she could not see eye to eye with. It was a campaign fuelled by paranoia on both the left and right of the political spectrum and fought with corruption, black propaganda, dirty tricks and even murder. Expertly juxtaposing notable events with today's political arena, this new and updated edition of Thatcher's Secret War surmises that although Thatcher's ideals seem to have vanished, one remains: the power and importance of the extra parliamentary state and its surveillance methods and hidden powers in a new age of terrorism.

Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at the Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing at Hull University and also holds a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. He was the historical consultant to the BBC and a number of national and international newspapers on the G20 disturbances and the 2011 riots in Britain. He is an occasional feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, as well as being quoted in The Washington Post. He regularly appears on television and radio and he is quoted in The Columbia Book of World Quotations. He has also advised the British Cabinet Office on public disorder issues.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 1974 • 1974, 1990, subversion, coercion, secrecy, government, prime minister, british prime minister, mrs thatcher, margaret thatcher, iron lady, anti-nuclear, new age campaigners, ecology campaigners, poll tax, protestors, trade unions, trade unionists, miners, miners strikes, feminists, homosexuals • 1990 • anti-nuclear • British Government • British Prime Minister • Brixton • Broadwater Farm • Coercion • conservatives • Derek Hatton • ecology campaigners • EU • Far Right • feminists • glc • Government • homosexuals|scottish nationalists • IRA • Iron Lady • Ken Livingstone • Margaret Thatcher • miners • miners strikes • Mrs Thatcher • new age campaigners • Politics • Poll Tax • Power • Premiership • premiership, conservatives, tories, tory party • Prime minister • Propaganda • protestors • rioters • scottish nationalists, ken livingstone, glc, derek hatton, rioters, brixton, toxteth, broadwater farm, far right, EU, IRA, politics, british government, propaganda, surveillance, terrorism, power • secrecy • Subversion • Surveillance • terrorism • Tories • Tory Party • toxteth • trade unionists • Trade unions
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-5800-6 / 0750958006
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-5800-4 / 9780750958004