From New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair

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A stellar collection of contributors consider each British post-war Prime Minister and examine how they have dealt with Britain's changing role, domestic and overseas, since the end of WWII. Even at the start of the 21st century, Britain remains in a state of transition, between a world which is dead and one still struggling to be born.

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A stellar collection of contributors consider each British post-war Prime Minister and examine how they have dealt with Britain's changing role, domestic and overseas, since the end of WWII. Even at the start of the 21st century, Britain remains in a state of transition, between a world which is dead and one still struggling to be born.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Edition: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 24 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 0230574556
ISBN 13: 9780230574557
Book Overview: PAUL ADDISON Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Second World War Studies, Edinburgh University, UK VERNON BOGDANOR Professor of Government, Oxford University, UK DAVID CARLTON Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University, UK ANTHONY GIDDENS Emeritus Professor, the London School of Economics, UK KEITH MIDDLEMAS Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History, Sussex University, UK KENNETH O. MORGAN formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK D. R. THORPE Senior Member of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK PHILIP ZIEGLER biographer of Edward VIII, biographer of Mountbatten and Harold Wilson

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PAUL ADDISON Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Second World War Studies, Edinburgh University, UK VERNON BOGDANOR Professor of Government, Oxford University, UK DAVID CARLTON Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University, UK ANTHONY GIDDENS Emeritus Professor, the London School of Economics, UK KEITH MIDDLEMAS Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History, Sussex University, UK KENNETH O. MORGAN formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK D. R. THORPE Senior Member of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK PHILIP ZIEGLER biographer of Edward VIII, biographer of Mountbatten and Harold Wilson