Thatcher''s Progress - From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism Through an English New Town

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain's transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.

List of contents

List of maps; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Horizons; 2. Planning; 3. Architecture; 4. Community; 5. Consulting; 6. Housing; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

About the author

Guy Ortolano is an Associate Professor of History at New York University. He serves as an editor of Twentieth Century British History, and is also the author of The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain (Cambridge, 2009).

Summary

Situating Britain's new towns programme of urban development within a global context, Thatcher's Progress revises our understanding of the welfare state. Guy Ortolano reveals a dynamic social democracy during its decade of crisis, while also showing how public sector actors begrudgingly accommodated the alternative politics of market liberalism.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Ortolano, Guy (New York University) Ortolano, Ortolano Guy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108482660
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48266-0
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Modern British Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Urban & municipal planning, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Politics and government