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Yesterday : The United Kingdom from Thatcher to Covid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Brian.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (897 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The first major account of this transformative period in the history of Great Britain Between 1990 and 2020, the United Kingdom experienced tension between unparalleled social change and a pragmatic political culture which sought continuity, compromise and gradualism.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Political Sequence
- Conservatives in Power, 1990-97
- Centrist Labour, 1992-97
- Labour in Power, 1997-2010
- Conservatives at Sea, 1997-2010
- Conservatives in Coalition, 2010-15
- Labour Seeks a Role, 2010-20
- The Constitution in Crisis, 2015-20
- 2. The Structure of Government
- Monarchy Tried and Tested
- Six Prime Ministers
- A Flexible Executive
- Parliament under Fire
- Beyond Westminster and Whitehall
- A Constitutional Revolution?
- 3. The Political Environment
- The Party System
- General Elections
- Referendums
- Pressure Groups
- Media and Politics
- 4. Law and Disorder
- A Voluntarist Context
- Lawyers in Politics
- Public Order
- Private Squalor
- Terror
- 5. The United Kingdom and the World
- A Shock to the System
- 'Liberal Interventionism'
- European Union?
- Imperial Sunset?
- 6. The Face of the Country
- Conservation and Environment
- Transport and Towns
- House and Home
- Regional Complexities
- Town and Country
- 7. Social Class and Ethnicity
- Hierarchy and Heritage
- Middle-Class Manoeuvres
- 'Social Exclusion' and the Underclass
- The Minority Life Cycle
- Multiculturalism
- 8. Family Revolutions
- Sexuality Scrutinized
- Family Upheavals
- Youth Liberated?
- Feminism of a Kind
- 9. Health and Welfare
- A Central Dynamic
- Volunteers and Pressures
- Wavering on Welfare
- Old Age and Death
- 'Tacit Atheism'
- 10. The Life of Learning
- Classroom Controversy
- Universities in Flux
- Internet Revolution
- 11. Leisure and Culture
- The Arts in Context
- Recreational Affluence
- Media Triumphant
- Celebrity Culture
- 12. Industry and Commerce
- Consensus Thatcherism
- A Flexible Workforce
- Distribution of Wealth
- Consumers in Clover
- Credit Crunch and After
- Conclusions.
- Slow Perception
- Current Realities
- Some Afterthoughts
- Acknowledgements
- Reference Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-27421-5
- 9780691274218
- OCLC:
- 1568059348
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