The grand delusion : Britain after sixty years of Elizabeth II / Stephen Haseler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haseler, Stephen, 1942-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monarchy--Great Britain.

Monarchy.

Social conditions.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Social conditions--21st century.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952-2022.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 301 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Summary:

In this groundbreaking new book, Stephen Haseler argues that the class structure which the monarchy has continued to encourage has retained outdated, yet seemingly entrenched, attitudes which have negatively affected Britain's economy, capacity to innovate and international stature.

Contents:

Part 1 Pride and Empire 1

1 Coronation: pretence and pomp 3

2 The Queen, the Commonwealth and the bomb 13

3 Eden: no end of a lesson 26

4 Macmiilan: a 'Greek' in the American empire 32

5 Douglas-Home: the Queen picks 'her' second prime minister 43

Part 2 Tumult, and Change? 53

6 Wilson: the 'white heat' of change? 55

7 Heath: failure of a radical? 64

8 Callaghan: end of an era 77

Part 3 Thatcher's Janus-Faced Revolution 85

9 The road to Thatcherism 87

10 Thatcher and the Queen: two visions of Britain 101

11 Thatcher: 'Closer in spirit to Old Ironsides' 118

Part 4 The Beginning of Isolation? 133

12 Major and the birth of Euroscepticism 135

13 Murdoch and tabloid xenophobia 145

Part 5 An Empire of Finance 161

14 Blair: saving the Queen, bottling Europe 163

15 Blair at the Millennium Dome: 'simply the best' 180

16 Blair's 'fatal attraction' 191

17 Blair and the City: an empire of finance 208

Part 6 The Reckoning 227

18 The crash 229

Part 7 Jubilee Year: Celebrating an Illusion 241

19 A jubilee for the British: hollowed out and in debt 243

20 A jubilee for the super-rich 253

21 Can Britannia adjust? 264.

ISBN:

9781780760735

1780760736

OCLC:

776777029