Resources
Related Categories
|
Also Recommended
|
|
|
The United Kingdom 1951-1970
Brian Harrison
£45.00
|
|
|
|
|
The People's Peace
Kenneth O. Morgan
£16.99
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Brian Harrison
£34.00
|
|
|
|
|
Finding a Role?
The United Kingdom 1970-1990
Brian Harrison
704 pages
|
16 black and white plates, 6 line drawings
|
233x152mm
978-0-19-954875-0
|
Hardback
|
25 February 2010
|
|
|
|
|
- Covers the period from the consensus politics of the 1970s through the Thatcher revolution, to the end of the Thatcher government in 1990
- Wide-ranging yet impressively detailed - covering everything from international relations to the family
- Focuses not just upon the politicians but upon the choices made by the people themselves - on the environment, social structure and attitudes, race relations, family patterns, economic framework, and cultural attitudes
In 1970 the 'cold war' was still cold, Northern Ireland's troubles were escalating, the UK's relations with the EEC were unclear, and corporatist approaches to the economy precariously persisted. By 1990 Communism was crumbling world-wide, Thatcher's economic revolution had occurred, terrorism in Northern Ireland was waning, 'multi-culturalism' was in place, family structures were changing fast, and British political institutions had become controversial.
Seven analytic chapters pursue these changes and accumulate rich detail on changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities, intellect and culture, politics and government. The concluding
chapter ranges chronologically even more widely to bring out the interaction of past and present, then asks how far the UK had by 1990 identified its world role. Like Harrison's Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951-1970 (2009) - the immediately preceding volume in this series - Finding a Role? includes a full chronological table and an ample index of names and themes.
This, the first thorough, wide-ranging, and synoptic study of the UK so far published on this period, has two overriding aims: to show how British institutions evolved, but also to illuminate changes in the British people: their hopes and fears, values and enjoyments, failures and achievements. It therefore equips its readers to understand events since 1990, and so to decide for themselves where the
UK should now be going.Readership: All those interested in the contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural history of Britain
|
|
|
Brian Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford
|
|
|
"there is a hugely impressive breadth of reference and eye for detail on display here." - Lawrence Black, Journal of Modern History, on Seeking a Role and Finding a Role? "No historian is better equipped to tackle a study of modern Britain in its wondrous complexity than Harrison... Finding a role?... is a major achievement" - Frank Prochaska, Times Literary Supplement "A brilliant work of modern history... [with] a range and depth, which should ensure that it... is regarded as a classic for years to come" - Richard Weight, History Today "Harrison's narrative is rich in both the range of the subjects he discusses and the detail in which they are analysed" - John
Callaghan, British Scholar "These two magisterial volumes [Seeking a Role and Finding a Role?] ... offer a consistently stimulating and formidably well-informed analysis of then condition of England since 1950, as it was shaped both by the wider world and its own internal development." - Richard Whiting, History "This is a great and virtuosic work, an essential book that enriches our understanding and never fails to reward its reader time and time again" - Sean Moran, History, Reviews of New Books "A sweeping assessment of British history... Comprehensive and thorough...the definitive starting point for any student or academic wishing to engage with this complex and fascinating period." - LIMINA: A Journal of
Historical and Cultural Studies, on Seeking a Role and Finding a Role? "Lucidly written, meticulously researched, and comprehensive in scope, the book stands out as a work of rare depth and sophistication. It is a landmark attempt to come to terms with Britain's contemporary history... Harrison has written a formidable book, replete with significance and interest. Scholars and students of modern Britain will be returning to it again and again in the years to come, both as an unrivalled source of information and as an eloquent contribution to a historiographical debate that will run and run" - Ben Jackson, English Historical Review "a major achievement of modern historical analysis" - CHOICE
|
|
|
Introduction
1: THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD
2: THE FACE OF THE COUNTRY
3: THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE
4: FAMILY AND WELFARE
5: INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
6: INTELLECT AND CULTURE
7: POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
8: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
|
|
|
|
The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
|
|
