James Cronin

The Politics of State Expansion

War, State and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

The expansion of the British state was neither automatic nor accidental, Cronin argues. He focusses on the recurring struggles over its role in society and on the later retreat from Keynesian principles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 166mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780415036238
• ISBN-10: 0415036232
• Artikelnr.: 21685539

Autorenporträt

James E. Cronin

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The politics of state expansion in twentieth-century Britain
Chapter 2 The Victorian inheritance
Chapter 3 Labour and the demand for state expansion, 1890-1918
Chapter 4 War and the creation of the modern tax state
Chapter 5 The state in war and reconstruction
Chapter 6 The resilience of budgetary orthodoxy
Chapter 7 Labour and the state between the wars
Chapter 8 The "people's war" and the transformation of the state
Chapter 9 Towards the "Liberal-Socialist" state, 1945-51
Chapter 10 "Centring" the postwar settlement
Chapter 11 Epilogue: Decline to Thatcher