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The politics of decline : an interpretation of British politics from the 1940s to the 1970s
- Title
- The politics of decline : an interpretation of British politics from the 1940s to the 1970s / Geoffrey K. Fry.
- Author
- Fry, Geoffrey Kingdon.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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- Description
- 307 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The Politics of Decline analyses British politics from the 1940s through to the International Monetary Fund crisis of 1976 in a manner that is both scholarly and forcefully written, presenting a convincing explanation of what went wrong that owes nothing to the conventional wisdom."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. 'A period of national humiliation and decline' -- 2. Ghost in the machine : Britain as a great power -- 3. Ghost in the machine : the Keynesian full employment welfare state -- 4. Ghost in the machine : the electoral revolution of 1945 and the veto -- 5. Wheat and tares together sown : the Attlee Labour governments 1945-51 -- 6. Fast falls the eventide : the Churchill Conservative government 1951-5 -- 7. The reckoning : the Eden Conservative government 1955-7 -- 8. The failure of the middle way : the Macmillan and home Conservative governments 1957-64 -- 9. The wrong revolution : the Wilson Labour governments 1964-70 -- 10. The health experiment : the Conservative government 1970-4 -- 11. The last act : the Labour governments 1974-6.
- ISBN
- 0333726227 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2004053452
- OCLC
- 56104429
- ocm56104429
- SCSB-13971623
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries