Routledge, 2021. — 340 p. This book, first published in 1986, examines the miners’ strike of 1984-5 – an event that formed the decisive break with a forty-year-old British tradition of political and industrial compromise. The stakes for the main parties were so high that the price each was willing to pay, the loss each was willing to sustain, exceeded anything seen in an...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 310 p. The result of the UK referendum in June 2016 on membership of the European Union had immediate repercussions across the UK, the EU and internationally. As the dust begins to settle, attention is now naturally drawn to understanding why this momentous decision came about and how and when the UK will leave the EU. What are the options...
Biteback Publishing, 2022. — 304 p. Carrie Johnson is not only the consort of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson; she is also considered by some to be the second most powerful unelected woman in Britain after the Queen. Since she moved into Downing Street in July 2019, questions have been raised about her perceived influence, her apparent desire to control events, and the number...
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2004. — 624 p. Foreword East of Suez and the Commonwealth 1964–1971: Schedule of contents Abbreviations: parts I–III Principal holders of offices 1964–1971 Notes to Introduction Summary of documents Documents The defence withdrawal from East of Suez Aden and South Arabia South-East Asia Persian Gulf Maps Aden &...
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1941. — 12 p. In these last six months, the political education of the workers has leapt ahead; prejudices about the Soviet Union, Communism and our Party have been tom from the minds of the workers by the march of events — people have developed an almost insatiable thirst for our literature. In order to meet this demand, new and improved...
University of California Press, 2012. — 380 p. The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply personal process that altered everyday life, restructuring routines, individual...
Routledge, 2022. — 232 p. This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of a significantly changed political and constitutional landscape. Starting with the 2015 general election and covering key developments up to "Brexit Day", it shows how Brexit "transformed" British politics. The unprecedented...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 101 p. — ISBN 978-1-137-48706-3 As former Prime Minister David Cameron put the fi nal touches in 2015 to the fi rst majority Conservative government in 18 years, a dividing line was drawn between the coalition he had led alongside the Liberal Democrats since 2010 and the single party administration formed with a slim majority in 2015. It was not only...
Faber and Faber, 2014. — 372 p. The second book in "The Pride and the Fall" sequence on British power in the 20th century, this work places Britain's decline since World War II in a new perspective. Based on an analysis of unpublished government records, the text shows that Britain's wartime performance, far from marking a supreme achievement of national genius and effort, was...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 304 p. The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film,...
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019. — 160 p. — (Scientist of Wales Series). The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme – especially the military programme – from the Second World War through to the present day. After the war, a number of Welsh scientists at Harwell played an...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 198 p. The making of Thatcherism examines the Conservative Party’s period in opposition between 1974 and 1979, focusing on the development of key policy on issues from the economy, to immigration and Scottish Devolution. Offering a detailed analysis of Conservative Party policy during this period, from the point at which it had last been in...
Verso, 2022. — 255 p. The crisis of Ulster Unionism and the future of Northern Ireland. The fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run through Northern Ireland. Since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the fragile peace has been threatened by Brexit, the rise and fall of the D U P and the failure of power-sharing arrangement between the main parties...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 107 р. This volume examines the impact of Brexit on political traditions such as nationalism, liberalism and conservatism, cosmopolitanism and decentralization. Bringing together scholars of British Politics, the chapters focus on the following topics: Brexit and the myth of British National identity since World War II; the evolution of discourses...
Verso, 2021. — 415 p. The rise and fall of Britain's most important industry. No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its factories and railways. It carried political...
Indiana University Press, 2023. — 380 p. A History of Britain - 1945 through Brexit, New Edition by Jeremy Black overturns many conventional interpretations of significant historical events, provides context for current developments, and encourages the reader to question why we think the way we do about Britain's past. The British vote to leave the European Union stunned...
Indiana University Press, 2023. — 380 p. A History of Britain - 1945 through Brexit, New Edition by Jeremy Black overturns many conventional interpretations of significant historical events, provides context for current developments, and encourages the reader to question why we think the way we do about Britain's past. The British vote to leave the European Union stunned...
Indiana University Press, 2023. — 380 p. A History of Britain - 1945 through Brexit, New Edition by Jeremy Black overturns many conventional interpretations of significant historical events, provides context for current developments, and encourages the reader to question why we think the way we do about Britain's past. The British vote to leave the European Union stunned...
Indiana University Press, 2023. — 380 p. A History of Britain - 1945 through Brexit, New Edition by Jeremy Black overturns many conventional interpretations of significant historical events, provides context for current developments, and encourages the reader to question why we think the way we do about Britain's past. The British vote to leave the European Union stunned...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 276 p. In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians and citizens in shock. But was Brexit really a surprise, or are there clues in Britain’s history that pointed to this moment? In A History of Britain: 1945 to Brexit, award-winning historian...
Reaktion Books, 2004. — 224 p. — (Contemporary Worlds). In Britain since the Seventies, well-known historian Jeremy Black examines the most recent developments in British political, social, cultural and economic history. Taking the triumph of consumerism as an organizing theme, he charts the rise and fall of the Conservative Party, developments in British society, culture and...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2024. — 226 p. — (Democracy in Times of Upheaval 6). Numerous analysts have lately expressed concern about tendencies including democratic backsliding and populism occurring in many countries worldwide. This book considers such theories in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) in the period since 2016, examining Brexit and numerous other...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2024. — 226 p. — (Democracy in Times of Upheaval 6). Numerous analysts have lately expressed concern about tendencies including democratic backsliding and populism occurring in many countries worldwide. This book considers such theories in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) in the period since 2016, examining Brexit and numerous other...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2024. — 226 p. — (Democracy in Times of Upheaval 6). Numerous analysts have lately expressed concern about tendencies including democratic backsliding and populism occurring in many countries worldwide. This book considers such theories in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) in the period since 2016, examining Brexit and numerous other...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2024. — 226 p. — (Democracy in Times of Upheaval 6). Numerous analysts have lately expressed concern about tendencies including democratic backsliding and populism occurring in many countries worldwide. This book considers such theories in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) in the period since 2016, examining Brexit and numerous other...
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston, 2024. — 226 p. — (Democracy in Times of Upheaval 6). Numerous analysts have lately expressed concern about tendencies including democratic backsliding and populism occurring in many countries worldwide. This book considers such theories in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) in the period since 2016, examining Brexit and numerous other...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 387 p. The story of how the UK Parliament came to use the Internet from the 1960s onwards has never been told. Electrified Democracy places the impact of technology on parliamentary workings in its longer term historical context. The author identifies repeating patterns of perception and analysis, and cultural tendencies in the perception of...
The History Press, 2015. — 320 p. This book, which begins with what many believe to be a political killing, is an alternative history of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. It looks at the secret campaign that Mrs Thatcher and her government waged before and after the Falklands War against 'subversives': anti-nuclear, new age and ecology campaigners; poll tax protesters; trade...
Policy Press, 2007. — 208 p. Based on an extensive series of interviews with MPs and Peers from across Parliament, the book traces the dynamics of political debate on welfare both between and within parties; assesses the emergence of a new political consensus on welfare; details the welfare policy environment and the reform of Parliament under Labour; examines the extent to...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 216 p. This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life developed optimistic visions for a post-imperial global role. Through the pursuit of international friendship, through educational efforts to know and understand the world, and through the...
Blink Publishing, 2022. — 464 р. The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebrated around the world, was the beginning of a new era for the Windsors. Yet, within one tumultuous year, the dream became a nightmare. In the aftermath of the infamous Megxit split and the Oprah Winfrey interview, the Royal Family's fate seems...
Crown, 2022. — 592 p. “Never again” became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Princess Diana’s tragic death. More specifically, there could never be “another Diana”—a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 185 p. This book explores and reconstructs how the principal parliamentary parties in Britain confronted and responded to events that unfolded during the Falklands War in the spring of 1982. The author begins by situating the Falklands Crisis within the wider context of the breakup of the British Empire and discusses the fluid political situation in...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 362 p. In this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as 'human rights activists'. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from...
Policy Press, 2020. — 319 p. — ISBN 978-1-4473-5125-2 On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, London from Jamaica, carrying 492 people, mainly young men and ex- servicemen, from across the Caribbean islands. The arrival of the ship, and its iconic scenes of be- suited and be- hatted young men disembarking along the gangplank, is often celebrated as a...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. — 327 p. Revealing the secret struggles between British politicians and generals to control the army in Northern Ireland. Introduction The Machinery of Civil-Military Command and Control. Planning for Aid to the Civil Power, 1968–1969. Troops on the Streets, 1969. Operation Demetrius: Internment, 1971. Bloody Sunday, 1972. The Army and...
Routledge, 2001. — 416 p. This is the fifth edition of what has become the standard textbook on contemporary British political history since the end of the Second World War. The new and improved edition of this important book brings the picture to the present by including the following additions: a new chapter on Tony Blair's administration including analysis of the London...
London: National Council for Civil Liberties, 1963. — 38 p. Foreword by Malcolm B. Purdie , Chairman, National Council for civil liberties. Security. Trafalgar square. Race, Prejudice and Education. Legislation and Race Relations. Deportation and Extradition. Mental Health. Homosexual Law Reform. The Rights of a Patient. Criminal Cases. Legal Aid. Northern Ireland. Religion and...
London: National Council for Civil Liberties, 1963. — 38 p. Foreword by Malcolm B. Purdie , Chairman, National Council for civil liberties. Security. Trafalgar square. Race, Prejudice and Education. Legislation and Race Relations. Deportation and Extradition. Mental Health. Homosexual Law Reform. The Rights of a Patient. Criminal Cases. Legal Aid. Northern Ireland. Religion and...
Routledge, 2019. — 323 p. This book provides a long-term perspective on the opinions of the British public on foreign and defence policy in the post-war era. Thematically wide-ranging, it looks at the broader role of foreign and defence policy in British politics and elections, public opinion towards Britain’s key international relationships and alliances (the United States,...
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1948. — 16 p. Resolutions Passed by Congress Communist Manifesto Centenary Greetings to the Red Army Spain Greece Wages Fascist Organisations and Anti-Semitism Agriculture Development Areas and Capital Cuts Shipbuilding and Steel Seamen’s Unofficial Strike Old-Age Pensions Amendments to Rules Fraternal Messages Fraternal Delegates...
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1948. — 16 p. Resolutions Passed by Congress Communist Manifesto Centenary Greetings to the Red Army Spain Greece Wages Fascist Organisations and Anti-Semitism Agriculture Development Areas and Capital Cuts Shipbuilding and Steel Seamen’s Unofficial Strike Old-Age Pensions Amendments to Rules Fraternal Messages Fraternal Delegates...
Head of Zeus, 2015. — 625 p. The Troubles refers to a violent thirty-year conflict, at the heart of which lay the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Over 3,000 people were killed on all sides, and many more damaged by a legacy that continued long past 1998. After looking at the roots of Catholic discrimination of the Northern Irish state, Coogan points to Orange...
Routledge, 2006. — 474 p. This major new reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archive sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. With a user-friendly layout, the book presents a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers from leading statesmen, backbench politicians, writers, campaigners, diplomats and generals which...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 208 р. Capitalism has become 'financialized'. Since the 1970s, the swelling of financial markets and asset price bubbles has occurred alongside weaker underlying economic growth. Yet financialization was not a spontaneous market development - it was deeply political. States fuelled this process through policies of financial liberalization, and...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 288 p. Book Description No other political party in the history of Britain's fascist tradition has been as successful at the ballot box as today's British National Party (BNP). This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Contemporary British Fascism offers an in-depth study of the BNP and its quest for social and political legitimacy....
Manchester University Press, 2008. — 295 p. In the last generation, Northern Ireland has undergone a tortuous yet remarkable process of social and political change. This collection of essays aims to capture the complex and shifting realities of a society in the process of transition from war to peace. The book brings together commentators from a range of academic backgrounds...
UCL Press, 2021. — 398 p. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political and public...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 243 p. Exploring the neglected history of Britain's largest migrant population, this new major historical study looks at the Irish in Britain after 1945. It reconstructs the histories of the lost generation who left independent Ireland in huge numbers to settle in Britain from the 1940s until the 1960s. Drawing on a wide range of previously...
Routledge, 2018. — 325 p. The surprise decision expressed by the British people in the referendum held in June 2016 to leave the European Union was remarkable. It also presents a "natural experiment" where the exposure of a society to an extraordinary event allows scholars to observe, in real time in the real world, the interaction of variables. The Routledge Handbook of the...
I.B. Tauris, 2014. — 288 p. Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. With an unprecedented level of access, and wide-ranging interviews from former ministers, senior civil servants and political advisers, Patrick Diamond...
Routledge, 2021. — 438 p. This book provides a novel account of the Labour Party’s years in opposition and power since 1979, examining how New Labour fought to reinvent post-war social democracy, reshaping its core political ideas. It charts Labour’s sporadic recovery from political disaster in the 1980s, successfully making the arduous journey from opposition to power with the...
HarperCollins, 2023. — 566 р. — ISBN 9780008623425. The explosive behind-the-scenes account of the plot to bring down Boris Johnson You think you live in a world where the elected are chosen by the people. Think again. When Boris Johnson came to power in 2019, he did so with the largest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher. Rewriting the political map, he united a...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 304 p. She was peaches-and-cream innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in November 1947 is remembered as the beginning of an extraordinary lifelong union, but their success was not guaranteed. Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of...
Routledge, 2012. — 280 p. Since the 1990s, there has been a growing concern about the resurgence of extremist and radical movements in the Western world. Although a variety of challenges to the liberal democratic order have emerged, the main focus of concern among academics, policy-makers and practitioners within Europe and beyond has been on the growth and activities of...
Routledge, 2012. — 280 p. Since the 1990s, there has been a growing concern about the resurgence of extremist and radical movements in the Western world. Although a variety of challenges to the liberal democratic order have emerged, the main focus of concern among academics, policy-makers and practitioners within Europe and beyond has been on the growth and activities of...
Polity Press, 2017. — 140 p. Brexit has changed everything - from our government, to our economy and principal trading relationship, to the organization of our state. This watershed moment, which surprised most observers and mobilized previously apathetic sections of the electorate, is already transforming British politics in profound and lasting ways. In this incisive book,...
Casemate Publishers, 2011. — 208 p. The book examines examples of outstanding courage exhibited by people living in modern Britain. These include British servicemen and servicewomen serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, police officers, and ordinary civilians in Britain and around the world. All of the cases cited have been awarded gallantry medals by the British government since...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 264 p. Germany wasn't really a place for settling in, because after the war it was pretty devastated, and there wasn't really a chance to start again, so I thought Id come to England. It was a case of people between 18 and 50 and you had to be fit because it was mainly physical work. For men, it was mines and agricultural work and brick factories...
Manchester University Press, 2011. — 256 p. This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing,...
Simon and Schuster, 2022. — 448 p. Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his car-crash resignation. In Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker...
Manchester University Press, 2016. — 347 p. Recent votes in the House of Commons on British military intervention have put foreign policy at the heart of public consciousness. This book examines fifty years and nine premierships - from Harold Wilson to David Cameron - to offer a unique account of the growing role of the prime minister in foreign policy making. The prime...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 272 p. This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe. The volume brings together literary and cultural studies, history,...
Pluto Press, 2020. — 224 p. Thirty years ago, a social movement helped bring down one of the most powerful British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century. For the 30th anniversary of the Poll Tax rebellion, Simon Hannah looks back on those tumultuous days of resistance, telling the story of the people that beat the bailiffs, rioted for their rights and defied a government....
Head of Zeus, 2017. — 239 p. On June 23, 2016, against all forecasts, Britain voted to leave the EU. Drawing on his experiences at the heart of the campaign, Daniel Hannan dissects the result and our reaction. He outlines why Vote Leave won, exploring what people were voting for and what they weren’t. He looks at the immediate aftermath—how it differs from what people expected...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 679 p. 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,...
Clarendon Press, 2009. — 681 p. In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and with Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be a great power, whose welfare state exemplified compromise between Soviet...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. This book expands on and complements the burgeoning Brexit literature by placing the UK’s vote to leave the EU in its longer historical and discursive contexts. It examines the embedded Euroscepticism, which has dominated British political discourse on the European project and the role of the UK within it for at least the last three decades. Brexit was...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 257 p. A major new analysis of Englishness as a political force. Unique survey data showing that English euroscepticism is strongly linked to a sense of grievance about England's place within the United Kingdom and a strong feeling that the state is no longer 'theirs'. Makes a number of new and compelling arguments about Britishness, including...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. — 811 р. — ISBN 978 1 3996 0018 7 The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and 'Love Me Do', the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5 October 1962. Most countries can only dream of a...
Counterpoint, 2016. — 256 p. In 1961, a thief broke into the National Gallery in London and committed the most sensational art heist in British history. He stole the museum's much prized painting, The Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya. Despite unprecedented international attention and an unflagging investigation, the case was not solved for four years, and even then, only...
Routledge, 2019. — 245 p. Originally published in 1985. This book has two important aims: first, to analyse the change in economic policy formation between 1979 and 1983 and the way in which policy sources were translated into reality, and second, to analyse how the first Thatcher government has changed the nature of contemporary Conservatism.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 248 p. Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process. It argues that in many ways Britain and the United States perceived and handled the threat posed by the Communist bloc in similar terms: nevertheless, Britain's continuing global...
London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1941. — 12 p. In these last six months, the political education of the workers has leapt ahead; prejudices about the Soviet Union, Communism and our Party have been tom from the minds of the workers by the march of events — people have developed an almost insatiable thirst for our literature. In order to meet this demand, new and improved...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 248 p. Social enterprise and third sector activity have expanded into a prolific area of academic research and discourses over the past twenty years, with many claiming their origins rooted in Blair, New Labour and Giddens’ "Third Way". But many academic contributions lack the experience of policy implementation and do not access the wealth...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 224 p. The Brighton bombing in 1984 was the most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government. Certainly it was the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 1605. The Provisional I.R.A. detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel on 12th October 1984. Most of the Government were staying at the hotel at the time. The Conservative party was holding...
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2000. — 937 p. Frontispiece: Mr Macmillan addressing Members of both Houses of the South African Parliament, 3 February 1960 Foreword The Conservative government and the end of empire 1957–1964 Abbreviations Principal holders of offices, 1957–1964 Notes to Introduction Summary of documents: part I Colonial high...
Routledge, 2017. — 184 p. Consociational power sharing is often perceived to be the method of conflict management that is most likely to succeed in deeply divided societies. The case of Northern Ireland in particular is heralded by many as a consociational success story. Since the signing of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement in 1998, significant conflict transformation has...
Penguin Books, 2006. — 252 p. The history of Britain in the last thirty years, under both Conservative and Labour governments, has been dominated by one figure - Margaret Thatcher. Her election marked a decisive break with the past and her premiership transformed not just her country, but the nature of democratic leadership. In his 'argued history' Simon Jenkins analyses this...
John Blake, 2013. — 224 p. A fully updated insider's account of the royal romance from trusted journalist Robert Jobson, NBC's royal correspondent. It is the love story which captivated the world. and, after 8 years together, William and Kate married in spectacular style at Westminster Abbey on April 29th, 2011. This is a true insider account of Prince William's amazing love...
Palgrave Pivot, 2020. — 112 p. Parish councils are often underappreciated and undervalued in what they do even though they are an essential part of the governing of England today. In spite of this, the number of parish councils and the roles they perform are increasing. This book explores the reasons for this apparent resurgence in parish councils. Some of it is a response to...
Pegasus, 2012. — 352 p. The first definitive, in-depth portrait of the man who will be king of England-and the story of his relationship with the woman who will be his queen. His face is recognized the world over, his story is well known. But what is Prince William really like? As Diana's eldest son, he was her confidant. While the tabloids eagerly lapped up the lurid details...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 227 p. Media, Myth and Terrorism is a rigorous case study of Blitz mythology in British newspaper responses to the July 7th bombings. Considering how the press, politicians and the public were caught up in popular accounts of Britain's past, Kelsey explores the ideological battleground that took place in the weeks following the bombings.
Penguin Books, 2015. — 352 p. The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows, this transformation lies at the heart of British politics today. Imagining - or pretending - that the British political system and Britain's place in the world have not...
John Murray Press, 2022. — 239 p. In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after the end of the British empire an interconnected group of well-heeled British intellectuals, politicians, accountants and lawyers offshored their capital, seized assets and saddled debt in former 'dependencies'. This enabled horrific inequality across the globe as ruthless capitalists...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 373 p. This book examines how the Crown has performed as Head of State across the UK and post war Commonwealth during times of political crisis. It explores the little-known relationships, powers and imperial legacies regarding modern heads of state in parliamentary regimes where so many decisions occur without parliamentary or public scrutiny. This...
Harper Collins, 2020. — 320 p. The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? From royal insider, biographer and historian Robert Lacey, this book reveals the untold details of William and Harry's closeness and estrangement,...
Spellmount, 2012. — 272 p. In 1952 Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne. In the 60 years of her reign so far, there have been thousands of conscripts and regular service personnel who have served under the Queen’s Colours. This book celebrates their incredible achievement, covering the period from 1952 to the Queen’s diamond jubilee year 2012. Service men and women recall...
Macmillan Education, 2004. — 284 p. This major work of synthesis presents an up-to-date assessment of the issues at the very root of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Framed against the background of Ulster history since the early seventeenth century, the major factors in the development of the Ulster question since 1945 are examined. These include: - the evolution of Ulster...
Routledge, 2021. — 224 p. This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society, and technology, as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book characterises British defence as a...
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2001. — 855 p. Nigeria: Schedule of contents: parts I–II Abbreviations: parts I–II Principal holders of offices 1953–1960: part II Chronological table of principal events: parts I–II Summary of documents: part II Documents: part II Appendix to part II The Northern and Southern Cameroons, February 1961–February 1962...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 257 p. Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the state. Brexit has the potential to change everything – from the shape of government institutions, to the main political parties, from Britain’s relationship with its near neighbour Ireland to its...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 301 p. In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as homogenous groups in Western academic discourse, rather than as individuals with authentic voices. Building on her knowledge of the situation for women in...
Routledge, 2022. — 221 p. This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data. It dates this biopolitical data turn in British politics to the arrival of the Labour government in 1964. It analyses government’s increased desire to know the population, the impact this has had on British...
Amberley Publishing, 2016. — 232 p. In September 1960, the central London district of St Pancras was convulsed by rioting. What had begun months before as a peaceful protest about the lack of decent housing spiralled into some of the worst street-fighting ever seen in the capital. The violence shook the nation. All Metropolitan police leave was cancelled, MPs demanded an...
Routledge, 2024. — 650 p. The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace is the first multi-authored volume to specifically address the many facets of the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict, colloquially known as the Troubles, and its subsequent peace process. This volume is rooted in opening space to address controversial subjects, answer key questions, and...
Mercier Press, 2019. — 320 p. On 14 August 1969, at the age of 14, Michael McCann and his family fled their home. Life changed totally for the McCanns and the entire nationalist community. Thousands of innocent people vacated their homes, driven out by the initial pogrom and then by the ongoing campaign of expulsion by loyalist violence and intimidation. The British army...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. — 354 p. In the wake of economic depression, employment and equality in the workplace have never been more important. In this accessible study, Arthur McIvor investigates meanings of work and how, why and to what degree working lives have been transformed in Britain since the Second World War. The book presents a range of research data and primary...
Policy Press, 2015. — 224 p. While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann’s estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her ‘insider’ status enables us to hear the stories of its residents, often wary of outsiders. St Ann's...
Irish Academic Press, 2009. — 244 p. From stalemate to consensus by way of the Belfast and St Andrews Agreements, this is a 'big picture' treatment of the peace process. In a compelling compilation of landmark interviews and keynote analysis, award-winning journalist Frank Millar charts a unique chapter in Northern Ireland's history - in the words of the history makers...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 209 p. This book draws upon original research into women's workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity and participation in post-war England. Focusing on the voices and experiences of women who fought for equal pay, skill recognition and the right to work between 1968 and 1985, it explores why...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 217 p. The Troubles in Northern Ireland have proved to be one of the most intractable conflicts in Europe since the Second World War, consistently attracting international attention, particularly from the United States. This highly readable exploration of the central issues and debates about Northern Ireland sets them in the historical context...
Harper Collins, 2012. — 368 p. The exciting tie-in to the major new series on Radio 4, written and presented by one of the UK’s leading commentators on social and political life - Jim Naughtie. The perfect read for anyone who wants to gauge the depth and spread of creativity and genius in the British Isles over the past sixty years. To mark the Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 has...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. - 256 p.
Britain's Long War assesses the process of strategic change within the British Government's position on Northern Ireland, starting with Westminster's first intervention in 1969 and ending with the Belfast Agreement in 1998. Drawing on a vast range of primary sources including recently released cabinet papers, Peter Neumann analyzes the...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 208 p. This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-1984 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations. This evidence based account of the seminal period analyses the applications for EEC membership, the...
Vintage Digital, 2021. — 361 p. ‘The freezing winter of 1962–1963 finally thawed in early March and as if on cue British society and politics became molton and mobile. Those who lived through it will never forget it. Those who didn’t need to know about it. This book is a must: the author Juliet Nicolson and her subject are perfectly matched’ Peter Hennessey. On Boxing Day 1962...
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972. — 192 p. Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, (1914-1990), was the fourth prime minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate unionist, who sought to reconcile the sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland society, he was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Bannside...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 316 p. During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did Margaret Thatcher's government begin to privatise these new towns? By examining the most...
The History Press, 2015. — 255 p. This is the remarkable story of how the two most powerful women in Britain at the time met and disliked each other on sight. For over a decade they quietly waged a war against each other on both a personal and political stage, disagreeing on key issues including sanctions against South Africa, the Miners' Strike and allowing US planes to bomb...
Verso Books, 2021. — 352 p. Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a series of post-war immigration laws, Britain's colonial and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa were renamed immigrants. In the...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 272 p. This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1981 within a longer struggle against racism and disadvantage faced by black Britons, which had seen a growth in more militant forms of resistance since the Second World War. It explains these disturbances as ‘collective bargaining by...
London&New York: Routledge, 2006. — 368 p.
На английском языке.
Подробная энциклопедия современных политических аспектов, актов, деятелей и проч.
Очень нужная книга для журналистов, историков и политиков.
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 255 p. — ISBN 978 0 19 880796 4 This book is the first "post Chilcot" history of Britain's decision to go to war in Iraq in March 2003. Deploying the large number of primary documents and retrospective testimonies of participants, Blunder reconstructs the assumptions underlying decisions, the policy 'world' that participants inhabited 2001-2003,...
John Enoch Powell, MBE ( 16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, linguist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP, 1950–74), Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–87), and Minister of Health (1960–63). He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made a controversial speech on immigration, now widely referred to as the...
London: Policy Press, 1999. - 368 p.
The New Labour government elected in May 1997 claimed that it would modernise the welfare state, by rejecting the solutions of both the Old Left and the New Right.New Labour, new welfare state? provides the first comprehensive examination of the social policy of New Labour; compares and contrasts current policy areas with both the Old Left...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1137023827, 1137023821. Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers...
Longman, 1995. — 350 p. In this book, Dr. Ramsden recounts the Conservatives' eclipse during the latter part of the Second World War, and explains the Party's crushing defeat in the postwar election of 1945. He reassesses the Tory recovery under the guidance of R. A. Butler and Lord Woolton in the later 1940s, and throws new light on how that recovery was achieved. He discusses...
Longman, 1996. — 484 p. This is the final volume in the series: the definitive account of the political party that has governed Britain for most of the century. John Ramsden traces the political developments and leadership battles (and the wider fortunes of the Party in the country at large) from Macmillan's accession to premiership in 1957, to the surprise election victory of...
[London] : [Communist Party of Great Britain], 1958. — 260 p. The Executive Committee The Political Committee Sub-committees of the Executive Committees International Affairs Committee Social Services Committee Women’s Advisory Committee Youth Advisory Committee Economic Committee Cultural Committee Departments at the Party Centre Organisation Department Industrial Department...
[London] : [Communist Party of Great Britain], 1958. — 260 p. The Executive Committee The Political Committee Sub-committees of the Executive Committees International Affairs Committee Social Services Committee Women’s Advisory Committee Youth Advisory Committee Economic Committee Cultural Committee Departments at the Party Centre Organisation Department Industrial Department...
Lexington Books, 2021. — 257 p. The 1945-1952 British Government’s Opposition to Zionism and the Emergent State of Israel tells the story of a longstanding campaign conducted by senior members of a British government against Zionism, a fledgling nationalist movement, immediately after World War II. The book argues that although the British Labour Party had once been firm...
Cambridge: University Press, 2007. - 294 p.
This book questions conventional accounts of the history of European integration and British business. Integration accounts conventionally focus on the nation-state, while Neil Rollings focuses on business and its role in the development of European integration, which business historians have overlooked to this point. Business...
Palgrave, 2001. — 236 p. — (Contemporary History in Context Series). In a new book about Northern Ireland historian Peter Rose argues that if Harold Wilson's government in the late sixties had pursued a different policy the province might have been spared The Troubles. Wilson had promised the Catholics that they would be granted their civil rights. However, new evidence...
Skyscraper Publications, 2018. — 272 p. The summer of 2018 saw a crescendo in the campaign against antisemitism in the Labour Party, waged by a number of organisations claiming to represent British Jews. Their claims received extensive coverage in the media, which reported on demands for a particular definition of antisemitism, adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance...
Routledge, 2020. — 221 p. This book constitutes an original archival history of government secrecy, public relations and the debate surrounding nuclear weapons in Britain from 1970 to 1983. The book contrasts the secrecy and near-silence of the Heath, Wilson and Callaghan governments on nuclear issues in the 1970s with the increasingly vocal case made for the possession of...
Abacus, 2005. — 1083 p. — ISBN: 978 0 349 14127 5 On 21 October 1960, at the Old Bailey in London, the prosecution opened their case in Regina v. Penguin Books Limited, charged under the terms of the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 for publishing D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lo?er. The trial lasted for six days and made headlines not only in London but in capitals...
Edinburgh University Press, 2012. — 288 p. When do 'troubles', riots and insurgency become war? How does a liberal state respond to an internal war within its own borders? How does it define the rules of engagement for its armed forces? These questions, amongst others, faced the British government in 1969, when it decided to send the British Army to the streets of Northern...
The History Press, 2016. — 224 p. Born in inner-city Birmingham, from an 'impeccable working class pedigree', Graham Satchwell was diagnosed with a serious illness at age 7 – a condition which should have barred his entry to the police force. Forty-two years later, he was Britain's senior-most railway detective. In a career that encompassed every CID rank and involved some of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 422 p. On 5 June 1975, voters went to the polls in Britain's first national referendum to decide whether the UK should remain in the European Community. As in 2016, the campaign shattered old political allegiances and triggered a far-reaching debate on Britain's place in the world. The campaign to stay in stretched from the Conservative Party...
Verso, 1993. — 304 p. This original and lucid book examines the foreign policy of the British Labour government in the aftermath of the Second World War. It exposes Britain’s complicity in the creation of the Cold War and emphasizes the continuity between Labour’s policies and those of Churchill’s coalition government, underscoring the political influence exercised by senior...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 256 p. Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the Catholic Church in mediating conflict. During the Troubles, these priests...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 708 p.
Tony Blair has dominated British political life for more than a decade. Like Margaret Thatcher before him, he has changed the terms of political debate and provoked as much condemnation as admiration. At the end of his era in power, this book presents a wide-ranging overview of the achievements and failures of the Blair governments....
Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 2006. — 618 p. Foreword Malta: Schedule of contents Abbreviations Principal holders of offices 1946–1972 Chronological table of principal events Notes to Introduction Summary of documents Documents Biographical Notes Bibliography I: Sources searched at The National Archives Bibliography II: Official publications,...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 255 p. Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. It was the age of Keynesianism, of welfare state consensus, incipient consumerism, and, to its detractors - the so-called 'Angry Young Men' and the emergent New Left - a new age of complacency. While Prime Minister Harold Macmillan famously remarked that 'most of our people...
Canbury, 2022. — 482 p. In this engrossing and frankly deeply troubling book, former senior British diplomat Snell explains how Britain’s often incompetent, inconsistent and sometimes downright greedy foreign policy has played a pivotal role in rendering the world a more dangerous place. Not only in regard to Russia, where successive British governments have helped to plug...
Faber and Faber, 2021. — 480 p. In 1962, the US Secretary of State observed that post-war Britain had 'lost an empire and not yet found a role'. His gentle rebuke still rings true. Britain, clinging to its self-image as great island nation with a penchant for lofty exceptionalism, has trod a lonely path between engagement with Europe and a treasured but often demeaning 'special...
Routledge, 1999. — 288 p. These essays set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole. They then consider the key areas of current controversy - the pressure on the Army caused by changes in society, the Army's "right to be different", race, homosexuality and gender.
Routledge, 2019. — 338 p. First published in 1987. This book considers the Trade Unions-Labour Party relationship. It traces developments over the 1970s and early 1980s, and analyses the debate between those who argue for the Unions to take a more prominent lead within the Party and those who are against this. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of politics...
London: Routledge, 2001. - 224 p.
The UK government of Tony Blair is committed to fostering a European dimension of planning practice. Significant developments in relation to planning within Europe are occurring. The creation of the European Spatial Development Perspective, the reform of the Structural Funds, and the implementation of programmes to foster trans-national...
Anthony Blond, 1965. — 262 p. The British Political Fringe: A Profile, by George Thayer is a fascinating examination of some of the little known political fringe groups of Great Britain from this period. The book examines most of these non-mainstream groups; however, it leaves out certain groups of communists and a few other fringe groups because they have been discussed...
Routledge, 1998. — 224 p. The Conservatives and Industrial Efficiency, 1951-1964 responds to the need for a full assessment of the Conservatives performance in this crucial period. Drawing upon a wide range of archival sources, Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson explore the different aspects of the efficiency question. Beginning with the major issue of attempts in the 1950s to...
Monograph. — N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 344 p. This major new addition to Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History analyses the economic policies of the Attlee government, both international and domestic, in the light of Labour's ideas and doctrines about the economy. Jim Tomlinson highlights the concern of the government with issues of industrial efficiency,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 352 p. In 2016, the voters of the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union. The majority for 'Leave' was small. Yet, in more than 40 years of EU membership, the British had never been wholeheartedly content. In the 1950s, governments preferred the Commonwealth to the Common Market. In the 1960s, successive Conservative and Labour...
Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000. — 363 p. Drawing on original research into explosive evidence which had been concealed for twenty-five years, this book offers a devastating critique of the official Widgery Inquiry into the massacre of innocent and unarmed civilians by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. It exposes the Inquiry as a gross denial of justice and the rule of law. Expert...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 200 p. While the British Empire is long gone, it survives as a recurring flashpoint in heated debates about the present and future of Britain and the nations over which Britain once ruled. Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain turns a critical eye to the widely-held notion that the long shadow of the imperial past has much to answer for, and asks to...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 704 p. How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, West Indian immigration and...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 345 p. Shortly after it was founded in 1947, the CIA launched a secret effort to win the Cold War allegiance of the British left. Hugh Wilford traces the story of this campaign from its origins in Washington DC to its impact on Labour Party politicians, trade unionists, and Bloomsbury intellectuals
Boydell Press, 2019. — 378 p. Between about 1957 and 1979, British governments pursued policies loosely based on social democracy, with a strong commitment to full employment and egalitarianism. At this time, there was almost unlimited enthusiasm on the Rightof British politics for membership of the EEC. The real debate was within the British Left, and the dividing line was...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 264 p. Women born in mid twentieth-century Britain were the 'welfare state generation' – not only were their lives fundamentally shaped by the welfare state, they helped to transform it. In this ground-breaking work, Eve Worth examines the impact of the welfare state on the life course of women whose opportunities and social experiences were formed...
Послевоенное положение.
Выборы 1945 г. и образование лейбористского правительства.
Социально-экономические реформы. "Демократический социализм" лейбористов.
Финансово-экономическая политика лейбористского правительства.
Положение трудящихся и рабочее движение в 1945-1951 гг.
Распад Британской империи. Внешняя политика лейбористского движения.
Парламентские выборы 1950 и 1951...
М.: Наука, 1976. — 379 с. В книге исследуются актуальные проблемы современного рабочего движения Великобритании: изменения в структуре профсоюзного движения, стачечные битвы и роль в них тред-юнионов, борьба профсоюзов за демократический контроль над производством. Особое внимание автор уделяет взаимоотношениям тред-юнионов с лейбористской партией и росту влияния...
М.: Наука, 1976. — 379 с. В книге исследуются актуальные проблемы современного рабочего движения Великобритании: изменения в структуре профсоюзного движения, стачечные битвы и роль в них тред-юнионов, борьба профсоюзов за демократический контроль над производством. Особое внимание автор уделяет взаимоотношениям тред-юнионов с лейбористской партией и росту влияния...
М.: Издательство Наука, 1972. — 416 с. В данной научной работе рассматриваются актуальные проблемы современного английского государственно-монополистического капитализма. Автор подробно анализирует новейшие тенденции развития монополий и финансовой олигархии Англии и механизм их сращивания с аппаратом империалистического государства на пороге 1970-х годов. Значительное место в...
Монография. — М. : Ин-т Европы РАН, 2020. — 141 с. — (Доклады Института Европы № 378). — ISBN 978-5-98163-145-0. В коллективной монографии ведущих российских англоведов рассмотрены важнейшие политические и экономические процессы в Соединённом Королевстве второй половины 2019–2020 гг. Авторы представили анализ системы государственного управления, состояния партийно-политической...
Монография. — М. : Ин-т Европы РАН, 2020. — 161 с. — (Доклады Института Европы № 373). — ISBN 978-5-98163-160-3. В работе представлен комплексный анализ внешней политики Соединённого Королевства с референдума 2016 г. до официального выхода из Европейского союза в январе 2020 г. Особое внимание уделено теоретическим аспектам новой внешнеполитической концепции «Глобальной...
Киев: Наукова думка, 1974. — 112 с. Работа посвящена исследованию важной и актуальной темы. В ней рассматриваются основные направления антинародной социальной политики английского правительства консерваторов. Значительное место уделяется критике буржуазных и реформистских «теорий», рекламирующих Англию как «государство всеобщего благоденствия и полной занятости»,...
Киев: Наукова Думка, 1977. — 226 с. Буржуазные идеологи настойчиво пропагандируют «демократизм» и «стабильность» английской политической системы, представляют ее как образец «народовластия». В этой связи особое значение приобретает развенчивание этого мифа на примере исследования двух основных буржуазных партий страны — консервативной и либеральной. В монографии анализируется...
Киев: Наукова Думка, 1977. — 226 с. Буржуазные идеологи настойчиво пропагандируют «демократизм» и «стабильность» английской политической системы, представляют ее как образец «народовластия». В этой связи особое значение приобретает развенчивание этого мифа на примере исследования двух основных буржуазных партий страны — консервативной и либеральной. В монографии анализируется...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 227 с. В монографии рассматривается поведение английских избирателей на парламентских выборах, участие в которых является важнейшей, а для многих единственной формой политической активности. Автор показывает, как некоторые особенности социально-политической жизни Великобритании влияют на формирование массового политического сознания. В книге прослежена...
М.: Наука, 1974. — 227 с. В монографии рассматривается поведение английских избирателей на парламентских выборах, участие в которых является важнейшей, а для многих единственной формой политической активности. Автор показывает, как некоторые особенности социально-политической жизни Великобритании влияют на формирование массового политического сознания. В книге прослежена...
М.: Весь Мир, 2007. — 538 с. — (Старый Свет – новые времена). — ISBN: 978-5-7777-0389-7. За последние два с половиной десятилетия Великобритания прошла через сложный процесс модернизации, во всех сферах её жизни произошли важные изменения, порой кардинальные. Настоящая коллективная монография, открывающая страновую серию Института Европы РАН, знакомит с переменами в...
М.: Весь Мир, 2007. — 538 с. — (Старый Свет – новые времена). — ISBN: 978-5-7777-0389-7. За последние два с половиной десятилетия Великобритания прошла через сложный процесс модернизации, во всех сферах её жизни произошли важные изменения, порой кардинальные. Настоящая коллективная монография, открывающая страновую серию Института Европы РАН, знакомит с переменами в...
М.: Международные отношения, 2017. — 448 с.; ил. Сборник содержит семь политических портретов британских премьер-министров второй половины XX-начала XXI века — Э. Хита, М. Тэтчер, Дж. Мэйджора, Т. Блэра, Г. Брауна, Д. Кэмерона и Т. Мэй. Некоторые из них, являясь яркими и противоречивыми фигурами, оставили заметный след в истории страны, других, менее сильных личностей,...
Монография. — Витебск: Витебский государственный университет им. П.М. Машерова (ВГУ), 2023. — 306 с. — ISBN 978-985-30-0054-2. Монография посвящена политической биографии и психологическому портрету М. Тэтчер, внутренней и внешней политике ее трех правительственных консервативных кабинетов, а также анализу такого явления, как тэтчеризм. В основу издания положены «Автобиография»...
М.: Мысль, 1981. — 429 с. — (Современный монополистеческий капитализм). В книге раскрываются причины ослабления позиций Великобритании в мировом капиталистическом хозяйстве, показано, как британские монополии и государство приспосабливаются к меняющейся обстановке в мире, исследуются новые явления в социально-классовой структуре общества, изменения в положении и борьбе...
М.: Мысль, 1981. — 429 с. — (Современный монополистеческий капитализм). В книге раскрываются причины ослабления позиций Великобритании в мировом капиталистическом хозяйстве, показано, как британские монополии и государство приспосабливаются к меняющейся обстановке в мире, исследуются новые явления в социально-классовой структуре общества, изменения в положении и борьбе...
М.: Международные отношения, 1989. — 256 с. — ISBN: 5-7133-0057-9. На основе близкого знакомства с разными людьми в Великобритании, использования многих источников, в том числе рассекреченных архивных документов, политический обозреватель "Известий" В.А. Матвеев рассказывает о жизни, политике, хозяйстве, нравах этой старейшей страны капитализма, о ее столице. Особый раздел...
М.: Маска, 2015. — 310 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9907197-5-0. «В мире существует более двухсот государств, и лишь 28 из них имеют монархический строй. Из этих 28 монархических государств 13 находятся в Азии, 3 – в Африке, 1 – в Океании (Тонга) и 11 находятся в Европе. Хотя государств с монархическим строем не так много, они оказывают значительное влияние на международные отношения и...
М.: Маска, 2015. — 310 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9907197-5-0. «В мире существует более двухсот государств, и лишь 28 из них имеют монархический строй. Из этих 28 монархических государств 13 находятся в Азии, 3 – в Африке, 1 – в Океании (Тонга) и 11 находятся в Европе. Хотя государств с монархическим строем не так много, они оказывают значительное влияние на международные отношения и...
М.: Маска, 2015. — 310 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9907197-5-0. «В мире существует более двухсот государств, и лишь 28 из них имеют монархический строй. Из этих 28 монархических государств 13 находятся в Азии, 3 – в Африке, 1 – в Океании (Тонга) и 11 находятся в Европе. Хотя государств с монархическим строем не так много, они оказывают значительное влияние на международные отношения и...
Пер, с англ. — М.: Альпина Паблишер, 2003. — 504 с. 15ВМ 5-94599-048-5
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