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British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair
Vernon Bogdanor
ISBN: 9780230574557
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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A stellar collection of contributors consider each British post-war Prime Minister and examine how they have dealt with Britain's changing role, domestic and overseas, since the end of WWII. Even at the start of the 21st century, Britain remains in a state of transition, between a world which is dead and one still struggling to be born.
The history of Britain since the Second World War can be written largely in terms of her prime ministers from Attlee to Blair. Indeed, many today think the prime minister, all-powerful, almost a presidential figure. Most of the essays in From the New Jerusalem to New Labour, have been written by historians personally acquainted with those who rose to the top of the greasy pole. How did they reach No 10? What sort of people were they? What were their aims? What difference did they really make? What, finally, is the impact of personality on politics? Accessible and stimulating, these essays shine a powerful light on the direction of postwar politics.
| ISBN | 0230574556 | | Pages | 224 | | ISBN13 | 9780230574557
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 491 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Publication date | 24 Feb 2010 | | Width (mm) | 162 | | DEWEY | 941.085 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Introduction by Vernon Bogdanor | | 1 | | 1 | | Clement Attlee, 1945-1951 by Paul Addison | | 9 | | 2 | | Winston Churchill, 1951-1955 by Vernon Bogdanor | | 23 | | 3 | | Anthony Eden, 1955-1957 by David Carlton | | 42 | | 4 | | Harold Macmillan, 1957-1963 by D. R. Thorpe | | 60 | | 5 | | Alec Douglas-Home, 1963-1964 by D. R. Thorpe | | 79 | | 6 | | Harold Wilson, 1964-1970, 1974-1976 by Philip Ziegler | | 93 | | 7 | | Edward Heath, 1970-1974 by Philip Ziegler | | 107 | | 8 | | James Callaghan, 1976-1979 by Kenneth O. Morgan | | 123 | | 9 | | Margaret Thatcher, 1979-1990 by Keith Middlemas | | 144 | | 10 | | John Major, 1990-1997 by Vernon Bogdanor | | 166 | | 11 | | Tony Blair, 1997-2007 by Anthony Giddens | | 184 | | | | Index | | 203 |
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