Modern Britain. An Economic and Social History.pdf

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1、ModernBritain‘Admirablebalance,allowingthereadertoseetheissuesinvolvedanddrawinformedconclusions...extremelycompetentlydoneandwhollyreliableasasourceofinformation.’SidneyPollard,UniversityofSheffieldModernBritainfocusesontwomajorperiodsofBritishhistory;theinterwarperiodandpostwarBritain.T

2、heauthorscompareandcontrastdevelopmentsinthetwoperiods,dealingwiththethemesof:•growthandwelfare•industry•labour•socialpolicy•theeconomyCombininganarrativewithaconceptualandanalyticapproach,ModernBritainprovidesanend-of-centuryreviewofprogressanddecline,andanessentialbackgroundtocurrentpol

3、emicsandmajorissuesofconcern.Clearlystructuredandwritten,thisisaninvaluabletextbookforstudentsoftwentieth-centuryBritishhistory.SeanGlynnisaSeniorResearchFellowatLondonGuildhallUniversity.HeistheauthorofInterwarBritain(1976)andseveralotherbooksonmoderneconomichistory.AlanBoothisSeniorLect

4、urerinEconomicHistoryattheUniversityofExeter.HeistheauthorofBritishEconomicPolicy1931–1949(1989)andco-editorwithSeanGlynnofTheRoadtoFullEmployment(1986).ModernBritainAneconomicandsocialhistorySeanGlynnandAlanBoothLondonandNewYorkFirstpublished1996byRoutledge11NewFetterLane,LondonEC4P4EETh

5、iseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2003.SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanadabyRoutledge29West35thStreet,NewYork,NY10001©1996SeanGlynnandAlanBoothAllrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilizedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknow

6、norhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers.BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataAcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibraryLibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationDataA

7、cataloguerecordforthisbookhasbeenrequestedISBN0-203-13819-8Mastere-bookISBNISBN0-203-17841-6(AdobeeReaderFormat)ISBN0-415-10472-60-415-10473-4(pbk)ContentsListoffiguresviListoftablesvii1Introduction1PartIInterwarBritain2Growthandlivingstandards153Societyandpolitics3