This book outlines and evaluates the political thought of the Conservative Party through a detailed examination of its principal thinkers from Harold Macmillan to the present. Traditionally, the Conservative Party has been regarded as a vote-gathering machine rather than a vehicle for ideas. This book redresses the balance through a series of biographical essays examining the thought of those who have contributed most to the development of ideas within the party. The chapters benefit from archival research and interviews with leading Conservatives. The recent revival of Conservative...
This book outlines and evaluates the political thought of the Conservative Party through a detailed examination of its principal thinkers from Harold ...
In this groundbreaking new book, Mark Garnett charts the changes in British politics, society, and culture since 1975. In the mid-1970s, Britons spent much of their time complaining and seemingly for good reason. A Labour government with a wafer-thin majority was struggling in vain against rampant inflation; the headlines were full of strikes, serial killers, and sporting disasters; while in the streets anti-fascist demonstrators clashed with the racists of the National Front. Britain in the early years of the twenty-first century seems a very different and much quieter place, but is it as...
In this groundbreaking new book, Mark Garnett charts the changes in British politics, society, and culture since 1975. In the mid-1970s, Britons spent...
British Foreign Policy since 1945 brings a chronological approach to the study of British foreign policy since the Second World War in order to make the principal events and dynamics accessible within a broader historical and cultural context.
The key features included in this book:
a detailed chronological survey of developments in post-war British politics;
an integrated discussion of foreign and domestic policy developments indicating connections and interlocking themes;
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British Foreign Policy since 1945 brings a chronological approach to the study of British foreign policy since the Second World War in ord...
British Foreign Policy since 1945 brings a chronological approach to the study of British foreign policy since the Second World War in order to make the principal events and dynamics accessible within a broader historical and cultural context.
The key features included in this book:
a detailed chronological survey of developments in post-war British politics;
an integrated discussion of foreign and domestic policy developments indicating connections and interlocking themes;
...
British Foreign Policy since 1945 brings a chronological approach to the study of British foreign policy since the Second World War in ord...
