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The politics of state expansion : war, state, and society in twentieth-century Britain / James E. Cronin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cronin, James E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare state.
- History.
- Politics and war.
- Bureaucracy.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Bureaucracy--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Great Britain--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Great Britain--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Politics and war--History--20th century.
- Welfare state--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
- Summary:
- in the 1940s. The absence of those tools would bedevil subsequent governments, and would lead to the triumph in 1979 of a Conservative government eager to abandon the commitments embodied in the "postwar" settlement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415036232
- OCLC:
- 22909494
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