Goodbye Britain?
Author | : Tony Aldous |
Publisher | : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tony Aldous |
Publisher | : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kathleen Burk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9780300161502 |
In March 1976 the value of the British pound began to slide. The slide turned into a rout and triggered an economic and political trauma. By September confidence in the pound had collapsed. In April 1975 the Wall Street Journal had run the headline 'Goodbye, Great Britain, ' advising investors to get out of sterling. Now the British Labour government under its new Prime Minister James Callaghan was forced to seek help from the International Monetary Fund, a familiar option for Third World countries but highly unusual for a developed western economy. This expert new study uncovers the roots of the most searing economic crisis of postwar Britain. The weakness and instability of the British economy in the mid-1970s, the consequence in part of the 1973 rise in oil prices, raised international alarm. The US government in particular feared economic crisis would drive Britain into a left-wing siege economy, endangering NATO and the EEC. Anticipating the danger, the US Treasury set out to force Britain to make major domestic policy changes. The sterling crisis provided the opportunity. The IMF provided the weapon. Arriving in London in November 1976, the IMF mission announced that the price for the loan included deep cuts in public expenditure. The consequent political crisis was fought out in private and in public, amongst members of the British Cabinet, the Labour Party, the Treasury and the Bank of England. It involved the US President, Treasury and State Department, the Federal Reserve, the German Chancellor and the Bundesbank. Burk and Cairncross uncover the efforts of the Labour government to escape IMF conditions. They also examine the political agenda, the loss of economic control, the rise of monetarist ideas and the change in the climate of opinion. Juxtaposing gripping narrative with expert analysis, the book provides surprising answers to critical questions and reveals how the breakdown of the postwar consensus on macro-economic management paved the way for the triumph of Thatcherism.
Author | : Tom Beck |
Publisher | : Keep Your Composure |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-04-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781838407605 |
Have you ever wondered what life's really like beyond our borders? Whether for work, love, adventure, or even to escape, millions of Brits packed their bags, grabbed their passports, and found out for themselves. Goodbye Britain is a collection of their real-life stories in their own words. Discover fascinating insights from British people living across the world; from chasing their dreams, following their hearts, dealing with their disappointments, and even the few who returned to where it all began.
Author | : Kariann Akemi Yokota |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199779910 |
What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled anxieties among the Americans about their cultural inferiority and continuing dependence on the mother country. Caught between their desire to emulate the mother country and an awareness that they lived an ocean away on the periphery of the known world, they went to great lengths to convince themselves and others of their refinement. Taking a transnational approach to American history, Yokota examines a wealth of evidence from geography, the decorative arts, intellectual history, science, and technology to underscore that the process of "unbecoming British" was not an easy one. Indeed, the new nation struggled to define itself economically, politically, and culturally in what could be called America's postcolonial period. Out of this confusion of hope and exploitation, insecurity and vision, a uniquely American identity emerged.
Author | : Leo Panitch |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2001-05-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781859843383 |
Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism.
Author | : Todd Crowell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2018-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789887792802 |
On July 1, 1997, the red flag of China was hoisted over Hong Kong - and the untried idea of "one country, two systems" was put into practice. Farewell, My Colony is a real-time journal of the end of an era. American journalist Todd Crowell captures a unique moment in history as Britain soldiers through the last months of its colonial rule, China waits restlessly to resume its sovereignty, and Hong Kong buzzes with speculation.
Author | : Len Deighton |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2009-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007347731 |
In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war... and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944.
Author | : Stuart Ward |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1526147416 |
This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the British Empire in the decades after the Second World War. A team of leading historians are assembled here to view a familiar problem through an unfamiliar lens, ranging from India, to China, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands, Gibraltar and the United Kingdom itself. At a time when trace-elements of Greater Britain have resurfaced in British politics, animating the febrile polemics of Brexit, these essays offer a sober historical perspective. More than perhaps at any other time since the empire’s precipitate demise, it is imperative to gain a fresh purchase on the global challenges to British identities in the twentieth century.
Author | : Howard Malchow |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2011-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804773998 |
A study of Anglo-American cultural and countercultural exchange from the mid Fifties to the mid-Seventies, Special Relations explores aspects of London modernism, the anti-war movement, student rebellion, black power, the second-wave feminist and gay liberation movements, and transatlantic nostalgia.