Making Thatcher's Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Thatcher's Britain write by Ben Jackson. This book was released on 2012-08-02. Making Thatcher's Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book situates the controversial Thatcher era in the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.
Making Thatcher's Britain
Making Thatcher's Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Thatcher's Britain write by Ben Jackson. This book was released on 2012-08-02. Making Thatcher's Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Margaret Thatcher was one of the most controversial figures of modern times. Her governments inspired hatred and veneration in equal measure and her legacy remains fiercely contested. Yet assessments of the Thatcher era are often divorced from any larger historical perspective. This book draws together leading historians to locate Thatcher and Thatcherism within the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain. It explores the social and economic crises of the 1970s; Britain's relationships with Europe, the Commonwealth and the United States; and the different experiences of Thatcherism in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The book assesses the impact of the Thatcher era on class and gender and situates Thatcherism within the Cold War, the end of Empire and the rise of an Anglo-American 'New Right'. Drawing on the latest available sources, it opens a wide-ranging debate about the Thatcher era and its place in modern British history.
Making Thatcher's Britain
Making Thatcher's Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Thatcher's Britain write by Ben Jackson. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Making Thatcher's Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Situates the controversial Thatcher era in the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.
Thatcher's Britain
Thatcher's Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thatcher's Britain write by Richard Vinen. This book was released on 2013-03-28. Thatcher's Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Britain's first female prime minister remains a political figure of almost mythical proportions. Margaret Thatcher divided a political nation, became a cultural icon, and was the longest-serving prime minister of the twentieth century. Her period in government coincided with extraordinary changes in British society and in Britain's place in the world. Thatcher's Britaintells the story of Thatcherism for a generation with no personal memories of the 80s, as well as for those who want to revisit the polemics of their youth. It seeks to rescue Thatcher from being seen as John the Baptist for Tony Blair, stresses that Thatcherism was not a timeless phenomenon, but rooted in the 70s and 80s, and focuses our attention away from her legend, to what her government actually did during this tumultuous period in British history.
God and Mrs Thatcher
God and Mrs Thatcher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Mrs Thatcher write by Eliza Filby. This book was released on 2015-02-24. God and Mrs Thatcher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A woman demonised by the left and sanctified by the right, there has always been a religious undercurrent to discussions of Margaret Thatcher. However, while her Methodist roots are well known, the impact of her faith on her politics is often overlooked. In an attempt to source the origins of Margaret Thatcher's 'conviction politics', Eliza Filby explores how Thatcher's worldview was shaped and guided by the lessons of piety, thrift and the Protestant work ethic learnt in Finkin Street Methodist Church, Grantham, from her lay-preacher father. In doing so, she tells the story of how a Prime Minister steeped in the Nonconformist teachings of her childhood entered Downing Street determined to reinvigorate the nation with these religious values. Filby concludes that this was ultimately a failed crusade. In the end, Thatcher created a country that was not more Christian, but more secular; and not more devout, but entirely consumed by a new religion: capitalism. In upholding the sanctity of the individual, Thatcherism inadvertently signalled the death of Christian Britain. Drawing on previously unpublished archives, interviews and memoirs, Filby examines how the rise of Thatcher was echoed by the rebirth of the Christian right in Britain, both of which were forcefully opposed by the Church of England. Wide-ranging and exhaustively researched, God and Mrs Thatcher offers a truly original perspective on the source and substance of Margaret Thatcher's political values and the role that religion played in the politics of this tumultuous decade.
