Clement Attlee (20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century)

Clement Attlee (20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century)

by David Howell (Author)

Synopsis

Famously beating Churchill in the 1945 election, Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually extended. He also gave independence to India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 176
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Haus Publishing Limited
Published: 15 Sep 2006

ISBN 10: 1904950647
ISBN 13: 9781904950646

Author Bio
David Howell is Professor of Politics at the University of York, and one of Britain's leading experts in Labour Movement history. He is the editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography and author of (amongst others) A Lost Left and Respectable Radicals: Studies in the Politics of Railway Trade Unionism.