British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization - A Political and Cultural History

A book which challenges received understandings of the place of the miner in contemporary British history, arguing that the British coal miners went through a cyclical movement -- from loser to winner and back again -- as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the twentieth century.

List of contents

• Introduction: From Loser to Winner and Back Again


• Part I: From Loser to Winner


• 1: 1967


• 2: 1972


• 3: 1977


• 4: 1981


• Part II: And back again


• 5: 1984


• 6: 1987


• 7: 1992


• 8: 1997


• Conclusion: The British Miner in History


• Appendix: Statistical Tables

About the author

Jörg Arnold is a historian of twentieth-century British and European history. He has published widely on Britain's coalminers and the history of de-industrialisation, urban history, and the history of memory and war. Arnold received his PhD in modern European history from the University of Southampton. He also holds a Staatsexamen degree from Heidelberg University and a BA from Southampton. Before joining the University of Nottingham in October 2013, he taught at the University of Freiburg and the University of Edinburgh. Arnold has held numerous research fellowships, most recently a Marie Curie Fellowship with the Freiburg Centre for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

Summary

A book which challenges received understandings of the place of the miner in contemporary British history, arguing that the British coal miners went through a cyclical movement -- from loser to winner and back again -- as Britain underwent a de-industrial revolution in the final decades of the twentieth century.

Additional text

Highly recommended.

Product details

• Authors: Jörg Arnold, Jarg (Assistant Professor in Contemporary Arnold, Joerg (Assistant Professor in Contemporary Arnold, Jörg Arnold, Jorg (Assistant Professor in Contemporary Arnold
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2023
• EAN: 9780198887690
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888769-0
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, British & Irish history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General