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Empire, Welfare State, Europe
History of the United Kingdom 1906-2001

Fifth Edition

T. O. Lloyd

Price: £26.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-870067-8
Publication date: 2 May 2002
624 pages, maps, charts, tables, 234x156 mm
 Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World
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Review(s) from previous edition:
  • 'an admirable text - informed, provocative, and highly readable - for any course on twentieth-century Britiain' - Journal of Modern History
  • 'a very readable book, in a style that lends itself to its subject matter' - General Education
  • 'covers an extremely difficult period in some depth, and yet goes far beyond the political aspects to study the social and cultural life' - History Today

Description
  • Up-to-date coverage includes the general election of May 2001 and the Conservative party leader election of summer 2001
  • The existing text has been fully revised to provide integrated coverage of the entire United Kingdom
  • The bibliography has been fully updated, listing the most recent publications in the field
In the twentieth century England lost an empire, built a welfare state, and began to accept the idea of being part of Europe. Abroad her relative power declined; at home life became more tolerable for the unfortunate and more secure for the majority of the people. This book surveys these two great currents of change and examines their political and economic implications.

For this fifth edition of Empire, Welfare State, Europe , Professor Lloyd has thoroughly revised the text and brought the Bibliography up to date. He has included a completely new chapter which brings the story right up to the general election of May 2001.



Readership: Students and the general reader interested in modern British history.

Contents
1. Time of Hope (1906-1911)
2. Heedless of their fate (1911-1914)
3. 'Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead' (1914-1918)
4. Rooted in nothing (1918-1922)
5. From the Carlton Club to the General Strike (1922-1926)
6. The years of inaction (1926-1931)
7. The National Government (1931-1939)
8. The military side of the war (1939-1945)
9. The domestic side of the war (1939-1945)
10. The post-war world: dream and reality (1945-1949)
11. The afterglow (1949-1956)
12. They 'never had it so good' (1957-1961)
13. The overstrained economy (1961-1967)
14. Cracking under the strain (1968-1976)
15. The end of an old song (1976-1985)
16. Withering away (1985-1992)
17. Search for a new way (1992-2001)
A note on statistical evidence
Bibliography
Maps, Charts, and Tables

Authors, editors, and contributors


T. O. Lloyd, Professor of History, University of Toronto (Emeritus)


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British & Irish history: from c 1900 -

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