Britannia's burden : the political evolution of modern Britain, 1851-1990

著者

• Porter, Bernard

書誌事項

Britannia's burden : the political evolution of modern Britain, 1851-1990

Bernard Porter

E. Arnold, 1994

• : hbk
• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The Great Exhibition of 1851 aptly symbolized Britain's pre-eminence. But the ascendancy did not last, and a century and a half later Britain is forced to acknowledge her relative decline in many if not most spheres. Bernard Porter's history of the period traces the origins of most of the problems that confront the country today back precisely to that "golden age" of the 1850s and 1860s, dismissing fashionable views that attribute decline to the abandonment of "Victorian values". He analyzes the artificiality of the conditions that in the 1850s and 1860s underpinned expansion, prosperity and stability, the burgeoning contradictions that liberal capitalism began to generate from the 1870s, with enormous political and social repercussions, and the growing tensions that resulted both in the so-called "new" imperialism of the 1880s and '90s and in Britain's semi-isolation in Europe for the best part of 100 years. Proper account is taken of short-term trends but full weight is also given to long-term developments and influences. We should look to the Victorian period not only for the roots, say, of the supersession of the Liberals by Labour after World War I, but also for an explanation of "appeasement" or for an understanding of the tension in the Conservative Party during the 20th century between its paternalist and free-market wings. Bernard Porter's study shows an awareness of the longevity of certain powerful characteristics in British life, and of their interrelatedness. His portrait fundamentally questions many of the conventional pieties that attach to the period.

目次

• Part 1 A period of most wonderful transition (1851-1880): the Great Exhibition (1851)
• Britain in 1851
• the Golden Years (1851-70)
• political flux (1851-66)
• reform (1866-75)
• auguries (1873-80). Part 2 A great parting of the waters (1881-1910): home to roost (1881-87)
• Gladstone at bay (1880-85)
• the revolt of the Whigs (1886)
• capital versus Labour (1886-95)
• imperialism (1890-1902)
• progress and reaction (1900-10). Part 3 Very great danger (1911-40): pre-war crisis (1911-14)
• the Great War (1914-18)
• post-war crisis (1919-1921)
• avoiding extremes (1922-31)
• security and Empire (1922-35)
• appeasement (1935-40). Part 4 Brave new world (1940-70): World War II (1940-45)
• the people's peace (1945)
• Labour's revolution (1945-51)
• Churchill again (1951-55)
• the last paternalists (1955-64)
• the Wilson years (1964-70). Part 5 The grain of human nature (1970-90): the Heath government (1970-74)
• the collapse of consensus (1974-79)
• Thatcherism (1979)
• counter-attack (1979-90)
• full circle? (1990).

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA23496179
• ISBN:
  • 0340561963
  • 0340561971
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 440 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 941.081