Guy Ortolano

Thatcher's Progress (eBook, ePUB)

From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did Margaret Thatcher's government begin to privatise these new towns? By examining the most ambitious of these projects, Milton Keynes, Guy Ortolano recasts our understanding of British social democracy, arguing that the new towns comprised the spatial dimension of the welfare state. Following the Prime Minister's progress on a tour through Milton Keynes on 25 September 1979, Ortolano alights at successive stops to examine the broader histories of urban planning, modernist architecture, community development, international consulting, and municipal housing. Thatcher's journey reveals a dynamic social democracy during its decade of crisis, while also showing how public sector actors begrudgingly accommodated the alternative priorities of market liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108627351
• Artikelnr.: 62736924

Autorenporträt

Guy Ortolano is an Associate Professor of History at New York University. He serves as an editor of Twentieth Century British History, and is also the author of The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Cambridge, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Horizons
2. Planning
3. Architecture
4. Community
5. Consulting
6. Housing
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.