Power, Competition and the State
Britain in Search of Balance, 1940-61
Published on 18. June 1990
VIII, 404 pages
978-1-349-10956-2 (ISBN)
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A study of how World War II British politicians planned a postwar settlement to remedy inadequacies from the interwar years; how that settlement was implemented in conditions different from what they had imagined; and why it became so criticized that the Macmillan government tried to recreate it.
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The wartime system; wartime attitudes; reconstruction bargaining, 1942-45; managing austerity, 1945-47; crisis and austerity, 1947-49; revising the settlement, 1949-51; parties and institutions; men and issues; threats to equilibrium, 1957-61; the new opposition and the old.
