An edition of State and society (1994)

State and society

a social and political history of Britain, 1870-1997

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An edition of State and society (1994)

State and society

a social and political history of Britain, 1870-1997

2nd ed.
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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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State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870
Mar 23, 2017, Bloomsbury Academic
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State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Academic
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State and society: a social and political history of Britain since 1870
2008, Hodder Education
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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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State and society: a social and political history of Britain, 1870-1997
1999, Arnold, Oxford University Press
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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
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-395) and index.

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London, New York, New York
Series
The Arnold history of Britain
Other Titles
State & society

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Dewey Decimal Class
941.08
Library of Congress
DA566.7 .P84 1999, DA566.7.P84 1999

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xii, 402 p. :
Number of pages
402

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OL6804973M
Internet Archive
statesocietysoci0000pugh
ISBN 10
0340719192
LCCN
00267763
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2067644
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