Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Reihe: The Making of the Contemporary World
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5480-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Focusing on the career of Margaret Thatcher, Eric J. Evans questions both the originality and the ideological coherence of what came to be called ‘Thatcherism’ and considers to what extent it met, or failed to meet, its main objectives.
Key topics discussed within the book include:
- Privatisation policies and the attack on trade union power and influence;
- How Thatcher changed and controlled the late twentieth-century Conservative Party;
- The legacy of the Falklands War;
- Thatcher’s relations with Europe – East and West;
- Thatcher’s approach to the professional ethic;
- The influence of Thatcherism on succeeding governments: Major and ‘New Labour’;
- Neo-liberalism and its influence on, and under, Thatcher.
With comprehensive suggestions for further reading and explanation of the economic, social and historical context of Britain in the late 1970s and 1980s, Thatcher and Thatcherism is an invaluable guide to the complexities and paradoxes of Britain from the late 1970s to the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
1 The 1970s: explanations and origins; 2 Election and depression, 1979–81; 3 Thatcher triumphant, 1982–88; 4 Thatcherism and the Conservative Party; 5 The attack on the government ethic; 6 The attack on the professional ethic; 7 Thatcher abroad I: Europe, East and West; 8 Thatcher abroad II: defence and the Americas; 9 Thatcher abroad III: the global statesman; 10 The fall: the significance of the Westland affair; 11 The Thatcher legacy I: the Major years 1990–97; 12 The Thatcher legacy II: the New Labour experiment; 13 Interpretations; 14 Conclusion