From New Jerusalem to New Labour

British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair
Herausgegeben:Bogdanor, Vernon

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Produktbeschreibung

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.
A stellar collection of contributors examine each British post-war Prime Minister in turn and how they have dealt with Britain's changing role, domestically and overseas, since the end of WWII

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-57455-7
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780230574557
• ISBN-10: 0230574556
• Artikelnr.: 26569885

Autorenporträt

PAUL ADDISON Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Second World War Studies, Edinburgh University, UK VERNON BOGDANOR Professor of Government, Oxford University, UK DAVID CARLTON Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University, UK ANTHONY GIDDENS Emeritus Professor, the London School of Economics, UK KEITH MIDDLEMAS Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History, Sussex University, UK KENNETH O. MORGAN formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK D. R. THORPE Senior Member of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK PHILIP ZIEGLER biographer of Edward VIII, biographer of Mountbatten and Harold Wilson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; Vernon Bogdanor Clement Attlee 1945-1951; Paul Addison Winston Churchill 1951-1955; Vernon Bogdanor Anthony Eden 1955-1957; David Carlton Harold Macmillan 1957-1963; D.R.Thorpe Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964; D.R.Thorpe Harold Wilson 1964-1970, 1974-1976; Philip Ziegler Heath; Philip Ziegler James Callaghan 1976-1979; Kenneth O.Morgan Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990; Keith Middlemas John Major 1990-1997; Vernon Bogdanor Tony Blair 1997-2007; Anthony Giddens Conclusion

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Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; Vernon Bogdanor Clement Attlee 1945-1951; Paul Addison Winston Churchill 1951-1955; Vernon Bogdanor Anthony Eden 1955-1957; David Carlton Harold Macmillan 1957-1963; D.R.Thorpe Alec Douglas-Home 1963-1964; D.R.Thorpe Harold Wilson 1964-1970, 1974-1976; Philip Ziegler Heath; Philip Ziegler James Callaghan 1976-1979; Kenneth O.Morgan Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990; Keith Middlemas John Major 1990-1997; Vernon Bogdanor Tony Blair 1997-2007; Anthony Giddens Conclusion