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Age of promises : electoral pledges in the Twentieth Century / David Thackeray, Richard Toye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thackeray, David, author.
- Toye, Richard, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political campaigns.
- Political manifestos.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 'Age of Promises' explores the issue of electoral promises in 20th century Britain - how they were made, how they were understood, and how they evolved across time.
- Contents:
- 'Our own policy is well known to you': Victorian legacies and the birth of the new politics, 1891-1918
- 'Judge a man by his character and his party by its record', 1918-1939
- Facing the future, 1940-1964
- An end to promises? 1964-1979
- Manifestoitis, 1979-1997.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780192580955
- 0192580957
- 9780191878930
- 0191878936
- 9780192580948
- 0192580949
- OCLC:
- 1243541845
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