Author: Shirley Robin Letwin
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: thatcherism, anatomy
Number of Pages: 377
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1560001062
ISBN-13: 9781560001065

Author: Dennis A. Kavanagh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: consensus, politics, british, thatcherism
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1987-05-14
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0198275218
ISBN-13: 9780198275213

Margaret Thatcher is the only 20th-century prime minister to have given her name to a style as well as a doctrine. Although the final balance sheet of the successes and failures of Thatcherism is yet to be tallied, this book places the government of Mrs. Thatcher in the perspective of postwar British politics. Here, Kavanagh describes how a postwar political consensus--covering full employment, welfare, conciliation of the trade unions, a mixed economy with state intervention, and social engineering--was established with the support of dominant groups in the Conservative and Labour parties.

Author: Lester Friedman
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Keywords: thatcherism, cinema, british, started, fires
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-01-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1904764711
ISBN-13: 9781904764717

Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser know

Author: Eric J. Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: world, contemporary, making, thatcherism, thatcher
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-04-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415270138
ISBN-13: 9780415270137

Thatcherism produced dramatic changes in most aspects of public life, both in Britain and abroad. This work surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Centring on the career of Margaret Thatcher, the author argues that Thatcherism was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet its objectives.