Research Catalog

Title

The people's peace : British history since 1945 / Kenneth O. Morgan.

Author

Morgan, Kenneth O.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xii, 611 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has now been fully updated and expanded to include the rise of New Labour."--Jacket.

Subject

• Since 1936
• Geschichte (1945-1989)
• Great Britain > History > Elizabeth II, 1952-2022
• Great Britain > History > George VI, 1936-1952

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The era of advance, 1945-1961. 1. The façade of unity. 2. Labour's high noon, 1945-1947. 3. The collectivist retreat, 1948-1951. 4. The conservative compromise, 1951-1956. 5. The zenith of one-nation Toryism, 1957-1961 -- II. The years of retreat, 1961-1979. 6. The stagnant society, 1961-1964. 7. Labour blown off course, 1964-1967. 8. Years of hard slog, 1968-1970. 9. The Heath experiment, 1970-1974. 10. Challenge to consensus, 1974-1976. 11. The years of discontent, 1977-1979 -- III. Thatcherism and its aftermath, 1979-1998. 12. The foundations of Thatcherism, 1979-1983. 13. High noon for the new right, 1983-1990. 14. Fin de Siècle: The rise of New Labour, 1990-1998. 15. Conclusion.

ISBN

0192853503

LCCN

^^^98030645^

OCLC

• 39625097
• SCSB-11264107

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library