Kathleen Burk (ed.)

The British Isles Since 1945

Ed. by Kathleen Burk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since 1945 Great Britain has gone through many changes: the loss of an empire, economic decline and resurgence, entry into Europe, evolution into a multicultural society, and devolution, to name only the more obvious. In this book, six distinguished historians each take a theme - politics, international relations, high, middle , and low culture, social and economic policies, the nature of civil society, and Ireland - and set out the fundamental nature and development
of each. These are set within the wider context of the Cold War, and its impact both internationally and domestically; of the impact on politics, economics and foreign policy of the decline of the pound and the attempts to arrest this; and finally, of the growing impact of Europe.

Produktdetails

• Short Oxford History of the British Isles
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780199248384
• ISBN-10: 0199248389
• Artikelnr.: 10999295

Autorenporträt

Burk, Kathleen (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, University College, London)

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: John Turner: Governors, governance and governed: British politics
since 1945
* 2: Jim Tomlinson: Economic growth, economic decline
* 3: Jose Harris: Tradition and transformation: society and civil
society in Britain, 1945-2001
* 4: Peter Mandler: Two cultures - one or many?
* 5: David Reynolds: Britain and the world since 1945: narratives of
decline or transformation?
* 6: Dermot Keogh: Ireland 1945-2001: between 'Hope and History'
* Conclusion: fin de siècle
* Further Reading
* Chronology
* Maps
* Index

Rezensionen

'this volume is excellently written and provides the type of overview essential for undergraduates and good A-level students' Keith Laybourn, University of Huddersfield, History, vol 89, issue 1, number 293