Guy Ortolano (New York University)

Thatcher's Progress

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Situating Britain's new towns programme of urban development within a global context, Thatcher's Progress revises our understanding of the welfare state. Guy Ortolano reveals a dynamic social democracy during its decade of crisis, while also showing how public sector actors begrudgingly accommodated the alternative politics of market liberalism.

Produktdetails

• Modern British Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781108482660
• ISBN-10: 110848266X
• Artikelnr.: 55395423

Autorenporträt

Guy Ortolano is an Associate Professor of History at New York University. He serves as an editor of Twentieth Century British History, and is also the author of The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Cambridge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Horizons
2. Planning
3. Architecture
4. Community
5. Consulting
6. Housing
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.