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| - ''this volume is excellently written and provides the type of overview essential for undergraduates and good A-level students' Keith Laybourn, University of Huddersfield, History, vol 89, issue 1, number 293' -
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| Description | | - includes separate chapters covering the developments in Ireland and Britain's relations with the wider world
- sets events in the British Isles within the wider context of the Cold War, assessing its impact both internationally and domestically
- discusses the growing impact of Europe on all aspects of life in the British Isles
- provides annotated guides to further reading, useful maps, and a detailed chronology
| | Since 1945 Great Britain has gone through many changes: the loss of an empire, economic decline and resurgence, entry into Europe, evolution into a multicultural society, and devolution, to name only the more obvious. In this book, six distinguished historians each take a theme - politics, international relations, high, middle , and low culture, social and economic policies, the nature of civil
society, and Ireland - and set out the fundamental nature and development of each. These are set within the wider context of the Cold War, and its impact both internationally and domestically; of the impact on politics, economics and foreign policy of the decline of the pound and the attempts to arrest this; and finally, of the growing impact of Europe. |
Readership: Undergraduates studying the history of the British Isles in the twentieth century. Background reading for students of twentienth-century philosophy, politics, and literature. Also for the interested general reader.
| Contents |
Introduction
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Kathleen Burk
1.
Governors, governance and governed: British politics since 1945
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John Turner
2.
Economic growth, economic decline
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Jim Tomlinson
3.
Tradition and transformation: society and civil society in Britain, 1945-2001
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Jose Harris
4.
Two cultures - one or many?
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Peter Mandler
5.
Britain and the world since 1945: narratives of decline or transformation?
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David Reynolds
6.
Ireland 1945-2001: between 'Hope and History'
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Dermot Keogh
Conclusion: fin de siècle
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Kathleen Burk
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, University College, London
| Contributors:Kathleen Burk, University College London
John Turner, University of Surrey
Jim Tomlinson, Brunel University
Jose Harris, St Catherine's College, Oxford
Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
David Reynolds, Christ's College, Cambridge
Dermot Keogh, University College Cork
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