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Author: Mark Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1317318048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author: Glen O'Hara
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-04-11
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0230361277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectations and demands for universally-available social services, the increasing complexity of the new solutions to these needs, and mounting frustration with both among both governors and governed.
Author: Peter A. Hall
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780195205237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.
Author: Nigel Knight
Publisher: Politico's Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a comprehensive account of British politics since the end of the Second World War, this work is a useful reference book covering 60 key years of British politics. It is useful for academics, students and the general public alike.
Author: Tom Crook
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1137467452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broadly defined, provides a new means of historicising some key developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed present in some much needed historical perspective.
Author: Geraint Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-11-05
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1108483127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA radical reading of British Conservatives' fortunes between the wars, exploring how the party adapted to mass democracy after 1918.
Author: Dr Inge Weber-Newth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-03-29
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1135766312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoth timely and topical, with 2005 marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this unique book examines the little-known and under-researched area of German migration to Britain in the immediate post-war era. Authors Weber-Newth and Steinert analyze the political framework of post-war immigration and immigrant policy, and the complex decision-making processes that led to large-scale labour migration from the continent. They consider: * identity, perception of self and others, stereotypes and prejudice * how migrants dealt with language and intercultural issues * migrants' attitudes towards national socialist and contemporary Germany * migrants' motivation for leaving Germany * migrants' initial experiences and their reception in Britain after the war, as recalled after 50 years in the host country, compared to their original expectations. Based on rich British and German governmental and non-governmental archive sources, contemporary newspaper articles and nearly eighty biographically–oriented interviews with German migrants, this outstanding volume, a must-read for students and scholars in the fields of social history, sociology and migration studies, expertly encompasses political as well as social-historical questions and engages with the social, economic and cultural situation of German immigrants to Britain from a life-historical perspective.
Author: Phil Tinline
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Published: 2022-06-23
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 1787388840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.
Author: Ian Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 113463207X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes an important contribution to the history and theory of British post-war economics in its presentation of an innovative, historically informed, yet contemporary theory of the British state.
Author: Peter Shapely
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-16
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1317125762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns about urban deprivation across Britain. It provides unique insights into policy and governance and into the socio-economic and cultural causes and consequences of poverty. Starting with the impact of redevelopment policies, immigration and the rise of the ‘inner city’, this book examines the pressures and challenges that explain the development of policy by successive Labour and Conservative governments. It looks at the effectiveness and limits of different community development approaches and at the inadequacies of policy in tackling urban deprivation. In doing so, the book highlights the restricted impact of pilot projects and reform of public services in resolving deprivation as well as the broader limits of social planning and state welfare. Crucially, it also plots the shift in policy from an emphasis on achieving statutory service efficiencies and rolling out social development programmes towards an ever-greater stress on regeneration and support for private capital as the solution to transforming the inner city.
