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Martin Pugh's volume offers a vigorous new interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era. With the skill and insight that characterize his earlier books, he explores as his central theme the relationship between the British state and its citizens.
He considers the extent to which negative 'Victorian' ideas about government had begun to erode even while Queen Victoria was on the throne, and emphasizes the Edwardian period as a turning point in the emergence of a more positive view of the state. The Great War, seen as a stimulus to innovation in the short-run, is revealed as a powerful agent of reaction against change in the longer term.
As Britain suffered economic decline and political upheaval between the wars, laissez-faire became less attainable, or desirable. The emergence of a phase of consensus in political, social, and economic affairs in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the persistence of that consensus up to the mid 1970s, is a complex phenomenon that receives thorough examination - as do the reasons for the breakdown of post-war policies, in a society in full retreat from great power status, and the attempts since 1979 to return to a state of 'Victorian' proportions, with the rise and fall of Thatcherism viewed in the context of long-term historical changes.
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State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870
2022, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870
2022, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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1350243108 9781350243101
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State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870
Mar 23, 2017, Bloomsbury Academic
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1474243460 9781474243469
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State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Academic
in English
1474243452 9781474243452
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State and society: a social and political history of Britain since 1870
2008, Hodder Education
in English
- 3rd ed.
0340966890 9780340966891
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State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain 1870-1997 (The Arnold History of Britain)
January 20, 2000, A Hodder Arnold Publication
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in English
- 2 ed edition
0340719192 9780340719190
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State and society: a social and political history of Britain, 1870-1997
1999, Arnold, Oxford University Press
in English
- 2nd ed.
0340719192 9780340719190
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State and society: British political and social history, 1870-1992
1994, E. Arnold, Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall
in English
034050711X 9780340507117
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