Britain's Decline : Problems and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780631150848 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 108 str.

Alan Sked

Opis

This account of Britain's decline in the 20th century discusses Britain's economic difficulties, as well as her decline in political, social and moral terms. Is Britain's 20th-century fall from grace the inevitable consequence of two world wars? Was the burden of imperial defence expenditure to blame? Or can it be attributed to aspects of British attitudes and culture?

O autorze

Alan Sked is Lecturer in international History at the Lonson School of Economics and Political Science and principle author (with Chris Cook) of Post–War Britain: A Political History (seond edition, 1984).

Blurb

Contemporary Britain is often held to be in decline and yet the nature of this decline is elusive. Is it social and moral, characterized by rising crime rates, urban unrest and sexual permissiveness? Or is it political and economic, and when in fact did it set in? Alan Sked examines the many competing explanations for Britain′s decline and reaches some intriguing and original conclusions.