Making Thatcher's Britain / edited by Ben Jackson and Robert Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Ben, 1975- editor.

Saunders, Robert, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thatcher, Margaret--Influence.

Thatcher, Margaret.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1979-1997.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Margaret Thatcher was one of the most controversial figures of modern times. Her governments inspired hatred and veneration in equal measure and her legacy remains fiercely contested. Yet assessments of the Thatcher era are often divorced from any larger historical perspective. This book draws together leading historians to locate Thatcher and Thatcherism within the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain. It explores the social and economic crises of the 1970s; Britain's relationships with Europe, the Commonwealth and the United States; and the different experiences of Thatcherism in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The book assesses the impact of the Thatcher era on class and gender and situates Thatcherism within the Cold War, the end of Empire and the rise of an Anglo-American 'New Right'. Drawing on the latest available sources, it opens a wide-ranging debate about the Thatcher era and its place in modern British history.

Contents:

Introduction: varieties of Thatcherism / Ben Jackson and Robert Saunders

Part I. Making Thatcherism: 1. 'Crisis? What crisis?': Thatcherism and the seventies / Robert Saunders; 2. The think-tank archipelago: Thatcherism and neo-liberalism / Ben Jackson; 3. Thatcher, monetarism and the politics of inflation / Jim Tomlinson; 4. Thatcherism, morality and religion / Matthew Grimley; 5. 'A nation or no nation?': Enoch Powell and Thatcherism / Camilla Schofield

Part II. Thatcher's Britain: 6. Thatcher and the women's vote / Laura Beers; 7. Margaret Thatcher and the decline of class politics / Jon Lawrence and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite; 8. Defiant dominoes: working miners and the 1984-85 strike / David Howell; 9. Thatcherism, unionism and nationalism: a comparative study of Scotland and Wales / Richard Finlay; 10. 'Just another country?': the Irish question in the Thatcher years / Marc Mulholland

Part III. Thatcherism and the Wider World: 11. Thatcherism and the Cold War / Richard Vinen; 12. Europe and America / Andrew Gamble; 13. Decolonisation and imperial aftershocks: the Thatcher years / Stephen Howe

Appendices / Prepared by Peter Sloman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-53994-9

1-107-22913-8

1-139-53180-8

1-283-57504-3

9786613887498

1-139-52714-2

1-139-52833-5

1-139-52594-8

1-139-53061-5

0-511-99816-3

OCLC:

808367115