1st Edition

Postwar British Politics From Conflict to Consensus

By Peter Kerr Copyright 2001
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, very much at odds to the dominant view in contemporary scholarship. The author argues that postwar British politics, up to and including the Blair Government, can be largely characterised in terms of continuity and a gradual evolution from a period of conflict over the primary aims of government strategy to one of recent relative... Read more
Chapter 1 1 Introduction: what's the story?; Chapter 2 2 Evolution, not revolution; Chapter 3 3 Conflict, not consensus; Chapter 4 4 Reconstructing our perspective; Chapter 5 5 Go … stop … go … stop!; Chapter 6 6 Struggling for survival; Chapter 7 7 Struggling for definition; Chapter 8 8 Final settlement; Chapter 9 9 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Biography

Peter Kerr is Lecturer in British politics and political sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is co-author of Postwar British Politics in Perspective.