The British Isles since 1945
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The British Isles since 1945
（The short Oxford history of the British Isles / general editor, Paul Langford）
Oxford University Press, 2003
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 17 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-242) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780198731801
Description
This title is intended for undergraduates studying the history of the British Isles in the 20th century. It should also be suitable as background reading for general readers and students of 20th-century philosophy, politics, and literature. It includes separate chapters covering the developments in Ireland and Britain's relations with the wider world and sets events in the British Isles within the wider context of the Cold War, assessing its impact both internationally and domestically. It goes on to discuss the growing impact of Europe on all aspects of life in the British Isles.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Governors, governance and governed: British politics since 1945
- 2. Economic growth, economic decline
- 3. Tradition and transformation: society and civil society in Britain, 1945-2001
- 4. Two cultures - one or many?
- 5. Britain and the world since 1945: narratives of decline or transformation?
- 6. Ireland 1945-2001: between 'Hope and History'
- Conclusion: fin de siecle
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Maps
- Index
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780199248384
Description
Since 1945 Great Britain has gone through many changes: the loss of an empire, economic decline and resurgence, entry into Europe, evolution into a multicultural society, and devolution, to name only the more obvious. In this book, six distinguished historians each take a theme - politics, international relations, high, middle , and low culture, social and economic policies, the nature of civil society, and Ireland - and set out the fundamental nature and development
of each. These are set within the wider context of the Cold War, and its impact both internationally and domestically; of the impact on politics, economics and foreign policy of the decline of the pound and the attempts to arrest this; and finally, of the growing impact of Europe.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Governors, governance and governed: British politics since 1945
- 2. Economic growth, economic decline
- 3. Tradition and transformation: society and civil society in Britain, 1945-2001
- 4. Two cultures - one or many?
- 5. Britain and the world since 1945: narratives of decline or transformation?
- 6. Ireland 1945-2001: between 'Hope and History'
- Conclusion: fin de siecle
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Maps
- Index
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