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The politics of decline : an interpretation of British politics from the 1940s to the 1970s / Geoffrey K. Fry,...
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Edited by Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, New York - 2005
Preface. 'A period of national humiliation and decline'. Ghost in the machine: Britain as a great power. Ghost in the machine: the Keynesian full employment welfare state. Ghost in the machine: the electoral revolution of 1945 and the veto. Wheat and tares together sown: the Attlee Labour governments 1945. Fast falls the eventide: the Churchill Conservative government 1951. The reckoning: the Eden Conservative government 1955. The failure of the middle way: the Macmillan and Home Conservative governments 1957. The wrong revolution: the Wilson Labour governments 1964. The heath experiment: the Conservative government 1970. The last act: the Labour governments 1974.