| Description |
ix, 170 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Themes in contemporary British history |
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Themes in contemporary British history.
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| Contents |
Preface / Brian Brivati and Harriet Jones -- I. What difference did the war make to politics and economics? 1. Never again / Peter Hennessy -- Commentaries / J. Enoch Powell and Keith Middlemas. 2. Britain: a comparative view / Eric Hobsbawm -- Commentary / John Barnes -- II. What difference did the war make to society and the citizen? 3. The changing nature of the British state, 1929-59: the historiography of consensus / Malcolm Smith. 4. The road to Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and the post-war reconstruction of citizenship / David Morgan and Mary Evans. 5. Approaches to women and social change in the Second World War / Penny Summerfield. 6. From the Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Sixties: continuity and change in British youth culture, 1929-59 / Bill Osgerby -- III. What difference did the war make to Britain's role in the world? 7. The impact of the Second World War upon British foreign policy / Geoffrey Warner |
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8. War and Britain's political crisis in India / Nicholas Owen. 9. The rise and fall of a 'special relationship'?: Britain and Czechoslovakia, 1930-48 / Mark Cornwall. 10. Change and continuity in British foreign policy towards Italy, 1939-48 / E.G.H. Pedaliu |
| Analysis |
Great Britain History, 1918-1960 |
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Great Britain History, 1918-1960 |
| Notes |
Selected papers of the fourth Summer School held in July 1991, organized by the ICBH and the Department of Government of the London School of Economics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1964.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007542
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United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1964-1979.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007086
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United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1979-1997.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007088
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056921
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056945
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| Author |
Brivati, Brian.
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Jones, Harriet.
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| LC no. |
92027420 |
| ISBN |
0718514467 |
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