Making Thatcher's Britain
ISBN: 9781107012387 | 1107012384
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 7/31/2012
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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 an... MORE
| 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 | |
| Defiant dominoes: working miners and the 1984-85 strike | |
| 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 | |
| Appendices Prepared by | |
| Further reading | |
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