Finding a Role? - The United Kingdom 1970-1990

Zusatztext a major achievement of modern historical analysis Informationen zum Autor Brian Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Modern British History at Oxford, has published widely in British social, political and cultural history since the 1790s. His first book, Drink and the Victorians (1971, second edition 1994), was followed by books on British reforming movements, feminism, and anti-feminism, Oxford University's history, and - in The Transformation of British Politics 1860-1995 (1996) - on how our political institutions have evolved. After editing the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from 2000 to 2004, Harrison was knighted in 2005 for 'services to scholarship'. Klappentext An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain from 1970 to the end of Mrs Thatcher's term as prime minister in 1990, covering everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, cultural life to political structures. Zusammenfassung An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain from 1970 to the end of Mrs Thatcher's term as prime minister in 1990, covering everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, cultural life to political structures.

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• Authors: Brian Harrison, Brian (Emeritus Professor of Modern Hist Harrison
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2011
• EAN: 9780199606122
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960612-2
• No. of pages: 708
• Series: New Oxford History of England; New Oxford History of England
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Politics & government, British & Irish history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1980 to c 1989, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)