The Decline of Power, 1915-1964

Informationen zum Autor Robert Blake (1916-2003) was the pre-eminent Tory historian of his day. In addition to his masterpiece, his biography of Disraeli, his books include Bonar Law: The Unknown Prime Minister , The Conservative Party from Peel to John Major and a volume in the Paladin History of England, (a series which he edited), The Decline of Power, 1915-1964 . These and Disraeli's Grand Tour are all being reissued in Faber Finds. Klappentext With customary wit! scholarship and wisdom! the author guides the reader through Britain's slow decline from the world's premier power to a nation with no military commitments East of Suez: still important! wishing to see itself as 'a cut above the rest'! but now effectively no better than third-ranking. Zusammenfassung Between the disintegration of the Liberal Party in 1915 and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour in 1964, Britain weathered a turbulent half-century including two world wars and many profound socio-political changes.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robert Blake, Blake Robert
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.01.2013
• EAN: 9780571296262
• ISBN: 978-0-571-29626-2
• Seiten: 480
• Abmessung: 126 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Hauptwerk vor 1945; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; European History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain