Finding a role? :the United Kingdom 1970-1990

• 作者: Harrison, Brian Howard.
• 出版: Oxford : Clarendon c2010.
• 稽核項: xix, 679 p., [8] p. of plates :ill., ports. ;25 cm.
• 叢書名: The new Oxford history of England
• 標題: Politics and government , Great Britain Politics and government -- 1979-1997. , Great Britain Social conditions -- 1945- , Great Britain Economic conditions -- 1979-1997. , Great Britain Economic conditions -- 1964-1979. , Great Britain , Economic conditions , Social conditions , Great Britain History -- 20th century. , Great Britain Politics and government -- 1964-1979. , History
• ISBN: 0199606129 , 9780199606122
• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [595]-613) and index. 1. The United Kingdom and the world : A shrinking world ; A globalizing economy ; Euro-equivocation ; Imperial aftermath ; Cold War implosion -- 2. The face of the country : A fragile landscape ; More people moving faster ; Urban utopia abandoned ; Communities old and new ; Irish tragedy -- 3. The social structure : The monarchy in trouble ; The country house revived ; Middle-class triumph ; Trade unions on the defensive ; From working class to underclass ; 'Multiculturalism'? --4. Family and welfare : Permanent sexual revolution ; New families, new women? ; A better life for the young? ; A welfare dynamic ; Old age remapped ; Friendship in flux -- 5. Industry and commerce : Corporation in crisis ; A free-market alternative ; The entrepreneur returns ; The workforce diversifies ; Free-market consumerism -- 6. Intellect and culture : Religions old and new ; Classroom counter-revolution ; University growing pains ; Cultural affluence ; Dumbing down? -- 7. Politics and government : A controversial executive ; Parliament in decline? ; A revolution in government ; Liberty comes and goes ; Conservatives transformed ; Labour on the defensive ; Privacy and publicity -- 8. Retrospect and prospect : Socialist setback ; Free-market aspirations ; Thatcherism audited ; Dystopia in prospect? ; Finding a role?
• 摘要: Seven analytic chapters in this book pursue the massive changes wrought in Britain between 1970 and 1990. They look in detail at the changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities and government which had occurred by 1990. , In 1970 the 'cold war' was still cold, Northern Ireland's troubles were escalating, the UK's relations with the EEC were unclear, and corporatist approaches to the economy precariously persisted. By 1990 Communism was crumbling world-wide, Thatcher's economic revolution had occurred, terrorism in Northern Ireland was waning, 'multi-culturalism' was in place, family structures were changing fast, and British political institutions had become controversial. Seven analytic chapters pursue these changes and accumulate rich detail on changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities, intellect and culture, politics and government. The concluding chapter ranges chronologically even more widely to bring out the interaction of past and present, then asks how far the UK had by 1990 identified its world role. Like Harrison's Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970 (2009) - the immediately preceding volume in this series - Finding a Role? includes a full chronological table and an ample index of names and themes. This, the first thorough, wide-ranging, and synoptic study of the UK so far published on this period, has two overriding aims: to show how British institutions evolved, but also to illuminate changes in the British people: their hopes and fears, values and enjoyments, failures and achievements. It therefore equips its readers to understand events since 1990, and so to decide for themselves where the UK should now be going. -- Book jacket.
• 系統號: 005217323
• 資料類型: 圖書
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