Governing Post-War Britain

Governing Post-War Britain
Author: Glen O'Hara
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2012-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230361277

Glen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectations and demands for universally-available social services, the increasing complexity of the new solutions to these needs, and mounting frustration with both among both governors and governed.

Governing the Economy

Governing the Economy
Author: Peter A. Hall
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1986
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780195205237

Analyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.

The Iraq War and Democratic Governance

The Iraq War and Democratic Governance
Author: Judith Betts
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2020-07-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030503194

This book examines the decisions by Tony Blair and John Howard to take their nations into the 2003 Iraq War, and the questions these decisions raise about democratic governance. It also explores the significance of the US alliance in UK and Australian decision-making, and the process for taking a nation to war. Relying on primary government documents and interviews, and bringing together various strands of literature that have so far been discussed in isolation (including historical accounts, party politics, prime ministerial leadership and intelligence studies), the authors provide a comprehensive and original view on the various post-war inquiries conducted in the UK, Australia.

Governing Risks in Modern Britain

Governing Risks in Modern Britain
Author: Tom Crook
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137467452

For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broadly defined, provides a new means of historicising some key developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed present in some much needed historical perspective.

German Migrants in Post-War Britain

German Migrants in Post-War Britain
Author: Dr Inge Weber-Newth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2006-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135766312

Both timely and topical, with 2005 marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this unique book examines the little-known and under-researched area of German migration to Britain in the immediate post-war era. Authors Weber-Newth and Steinert analyze the political framework of post-war immigration and immigrant policy, and the complex decision-making processes that led to large-scale labour migration from the continent. They consider: * identity, perception of self and others, stereotypes and prejudice * how migrants dealt with language and intercultural issues * migrants' attitudes towards national socialist and contemporary Germany * migrants' motivation for leaving Germany * migrants' initial experiences and their reception in Britain after the war, as recalled after 50 years in the host country, compared to their original expectations. Based on rich British and German governmental and non-governmental archive sources, contemporary newspaper articles and nearly eighty biographically–oriented interviews with German migrants, this outstanding volume, a must-read for students and scholars in the fields of social history, sociology and migration studies, expertly encompasses political as well as social-historical questions and engages with the social, economic and cultural situation of German immigrants to Britain from a life-historical perspective.

Postwar

Postwar
Author: Tony Judt
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780143037750

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Governance, The State, Regulation and Industrial Relations

Governance, The State, Regulation and Industrial Relations
Author: Ian Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113463207X

This book makes an important contribution to the history and theory of British post-war economics in its presentation of an innovative, historically informed, yet contemporary theory of the British state.

Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79

Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79
Author: Peter Shapely
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317125762

Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns about urban deprivation across Britain. It provides unique insights into policy and governance and into the socio-economic and cultural causes and consequences of poverty. Starting with the impact of redevelopment policies, immigration and the rise of the ‘inner city’, this book examines the pressures and challenges that explain the development of policy by successive Labour and Conservative governments. It looks at the effectiveness and limits of different community development approaches and at the inadequacies of policy in tackling urban deprivation. In doing so, the book highlights the restricted impact of pilot projects and reform of public services in resolving deprivation as well as the broader limits of social planning and state welfare. Crucially, it also plots the shift in policy from an emphasis on achieving statutory service efficiencies and rolling out social development programmes towards an ever-greater stress on regeneration and support for private capital as the solution to transforming the inner city.

Governing Systems

Governing Systems
Author: Tom Crook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520290348

"When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook re-examines this key question in the context of Victorian and Edwardian England, long regarded as one of the 'homes' of modern public health. The modernity of modern public health, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of a centralized, bureaucratic and disciplinary State, but in the contested formation and intricate functioning of systems of governing, from the administrative to the technological. Equally, we need to embrace a dialectical understanding of modern governance, one that is rooted in the interaction of multiple levels, agents and times. Theoretically ambitious, but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity"--Provided by publisher.

Violence in British Theatre: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century - Expanded Second Edition

Violence in British Theatre: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century - Expanded Second Edition
Author: Ajda Bastan
Publisher: Astana Yayınları
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2024-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6256501454

In this expanded second edition of her book, Ajda Bastan explores the various forms of violence depicted in British theatre during the latter half of the twentieth century. She offers a comprehensive analysis that presents the complex interplay between theatre, society, and the multifaceted nature of violence in the dramatic arts. The book includes commentary on physical, emotional, sexual, economic, and self-directed violence, examining these themes in nine plays by eight prominent British playwrights. The plays covered in chronological order are "Look Back in Anger," "The Birthday Party," "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," "Saved," "Vinegar Tom," "Plenty," "Blasted," "Shopping and Fucking," and "Cleansed."