The Free Economy and the Strong State: The Politics of Thatcherism

  • Reference: B240
  • Author: Andrew Gamble
  • Publication Date: 1988
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
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  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • Description: Index, 263 pages, Chapters including: The new right, from Butler to Thatcher, Struggle for Hegemony, Politics Class and Ideology
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  • Collection: Books
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Socialism in Britain

  • Reference: B236
  • Author: John Callaghan
  • Publication Date: 1990
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
  • keywords Fabian society, New Left Book Club
  • Comments: From 1884 (when the Labour party was established) an account of socialism in Britain. Socialist ideas and institutions like Marxism, Fabianism. Broad stroke approach to Wells, Webbs, ect
  • Publisher: Blackwells
  • Description: Index, 278 pages Chapters include: Formation of the Labour Party, Bolshevik revolution, Revisionism, Rise and fall of the left
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  • Collection: Books
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The British Labour Movement

  • Reference: B237
  • Author: AL Morton, George Tate,
  • Publication Date: 1956
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
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  • Comments: The British Labour movement 1770 - 1920
  • Publisher: Lawrence and Wishart
  • Description: Index, 314 pages Chapters include: the birth of class, Chartism, Epoch of Imperialism, Revival of socialism, Working class on the march once more, Outcome of the early years, Socialism and the Great Unrest, Post War Crisis, Hands off Russia
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From Labourism to Socialism

  • Reference: B238
  • Author: Michael Barratt Brown
  • Publication Date: 1972
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
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  • Comments: The political economy of Labour in the 1970s.
  • Publisher: Spokesman Books
  • Description: Index, 252 pages Chapters: End of the Post War Settlement, The Limits of the Welfare State, Capitalism World Book Reaches Crisis, Politics of Change
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Perspectives on strikes

  • Reference: B234
  • Author: ed. Ronald H Preston,
  • Publication Date: 1975
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
  • keywords Strikes
  • Comments: Right Wing perspective
  • Publisher: SCM Press Ltd
  • Description: Chapters including: Strikes seen as industrial chaplins, 149 pages
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The Fall of the British Empire 1918 – 1968

  • Reference: B235
  • Author: Colin Cross
  • Publication Date: 1968
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
  • keywords Colonial History, Empire, Imperialism
  • Comments: The British Empire at its peak had 1/4 of the world and assumed that it would be the common world order. Books picks up the causal change and effect of the fall of the empire.
  • Publisher: Book Club Associates
  • Description: Tony says: An interesting liberal account of the British Empire Index, 360 pages Chapters Including: The Dark Continent,
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Operation Thunder: the Entebbe raid – the Israelis own story

  • Reference: B232
  • Author: Yehuda Ofer
  • Publication Date: 1976
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
  • keywords Israel, Palestine,
  • Comments: 3 July 1976 Israeli commandos rescue 108 hostages
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Description: 141 pages,
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The Seven Ages of the British Army

  • Reference: B233
  • Author: Field Marshal Lord Carver
  • Publication Date: 1984
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
  • keywords History
  • Comments:
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
  • Description: Index, 332 pages Chapters include: The Age of Cromwell, Wellington, Walsy and Roberts, Haig, Montgomery, Templer
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The House of Commons at work

  • Reference: B229
  • Author: Eric Taylor
  • Publication Date: 1964
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
  • keywords Australia, Colonial model, New Zealand
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  • Publisher: Pelican
  • Description: House of Commons and how it all works Index, 256 pages
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