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- catalog abstract ""This is the fifth edition of what has become the standard textbook on contemporary British political history since the end of World War II. This chronological survey discusses domestic policy and politics in particular, but also covers external and international relations. This new edition brings the picture to the present by including the following: a new chapter on Tony Blair's administration including analysis of the London mayoral elections; new material on John Major in the light of the memoirs of Major, Norman Lamont and new work on the Labour party at this time; updated statistical data and tables; and coverage of the 1990s and the start of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12297052.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1945-".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""This is the fifth edition of what has become the standard textbook on contemporary British political history since the end of World War II. This chronological survey discusses domestic policy and politics in particular, but also covers external and international relations. This new edition brings the picture to the present by including the following: a new chapter on Tony Blair's administration including analysis of the London mayoral elections; new material on John Major in the light of the memoirs of Major, Norman Lamont and new work on the Labour party at this time; updated statistical data and tables; and coverage of the 1990s and the start of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-367) and index.".
- catalog description "Summer Victories -- Japanese to 'fight resolutely' -- Churchill's defeat -- 'Incredulity' as Conservatives lose -- Attlee's team: 'These fine men' -- Attlee: 'One of the best Chairmen' -- Britain: 'it won't be easy' -- Achievement and Austerity Under Attlee, 1945-51 -- Britain being 'flayed to the bone' -- American loan: 'This was a disaster' -- Public ownership: 'I've waited all my life for this moment' -- National Insurance: a 'paltry sum' -- The NHS: 'vested interests lined up' -- Housing and education: 'hands were tied' -- Constitutional and trade union reform -- RAF: 'incitement to mutiny' -- Conservatives get 'best salesman' -- Election 1950: 'real detestation of ... Labour' -- Colonial Retreat and Cold War -- Paul Robeson congratulates -- Indian Independence: 'struck me ... with a riding whip' -- Palestine: 'Arabs be encouraged to move out' -- Colonies: 'under the guidance of the Mother Country' -- War in Malaya -- Cold War: 'magnates ... who financed Hitler' -- Marshall Aid and NATO -- Korea: as 'democratic ... as Caligula's Rome' -- Iran: 'proud and subtle a people' -- Election '51: after 'exhausting and undignified process' -- Decline of socialism: 'some form of Gestapo' -- Churchill and Eden, 1951-57 -- 'Our future ... little better than a German satellite' -- Churchill's Cabinet: 'reminiscent of bygone times' -- The Bevanites: 'complacent assumptions' -- Eden: 'high order of intelligence' -- 1955: 'first of the electioneering Budgets' -- Gaitskell's 'great talent and firm loyalty'.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 388 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415248035".
- catalog identifier "0415248043 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1945-".
- catalog subject "941.085 21".
- catalog subject "DA588 .C54 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Summer Victories -- Japanese to 'fight resolutely' -- Churchill's defeat -- 'Incredulity' as Conservatives lose -- Attlee's team: 'These fine men' -- Attlee: 'One of the best Chairmen' -- Britain: 'it won't be easy' -- Achievement and Austerity Under Attlee, 1945-51 -- Britain being 'flayed to the bone' -- American loan: 'This was a disaster' -- Public ownership: 'I've waited all my life for this moment' -- National Insurance: a 'paltry sum' -- The NHS: 'vested interests lined up' -- Housing and education: 'hands were tied' -- Constitutional and trade union reform -- RAF: 'incitement to mutiny' -- Conservatives get 'best salesman' -- Election 1950: 'real detestation of ... Labour' -- Colonial Retreat and Cold War -- Paul Robeson congratulates -- Indian Independence: 'struck me ... with a riding whip' -- Palestine: 'Arabs be encouraged to move out' -- Colonies: 'under the guidance of the Mother Country' -- War in Malaya -- Cold War: 'magnates ... who financed Hitler' -- Marshall Aid and NATO -- Korea: as 'democratic ... as Caligula's Rome' -- Iran: 'proud and subtle a people' -- Election '51: after 'exhausting and undignified process' -- Decline of socialism: 'some form of Gestapo' -- Churchill and Eden, 1951-57 -- 'Our future ... little better than a German satellite' -- Churchill's Cabinet: 'reminiscent of bygone times' -- The Bevanites: 'complacent assumptions' -- Eden: 'high order of intelligence' -- 1955: 'first of the electioneering Budgets' -- Gaitskell's 'great talent and firm loyalty'.".
- catalog title "Britain since 1945 : a political history / David Childs.".
- catalog type "text".