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The Politics of Crisis: An Interpretation of British Politics, 1931-1945
Geoffrey K. Fry
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Hardcover. Formed to sustain the British economy in the midst of the Great Depression, the National Governments of the 1930s achieved this and more. This volume is an intepretation of the most dramatic periods of modern British political history - the decade and a half between 1931 and 1945. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 603.
The Politics of Crisis is an interpretation of the most dramatic periods of modern British political history - the decade and a half between 1931 and 1945. Formed to sustain the British economy in the midst of the Great Depression, the National Governments of the 1930s achieved this and more, and electoral popularity unmatched since. Yet the conventional wisdom about those Governments is full of the unemployment that they inherited, as it is of the image of Neville Chamberlain trying and failing to buy peace from Hitler at Munich. For then comes the Second World War and Winston Churchill and ... Read more
The Politics of Crisis is an interpretation of the most dramatic periods of modern British political history - the decade and a half between 1931 and 1945. Formed to sustain the British economy in the midst of the Great Depression, the National Governments of the 1930s achieved this and more, and electoral popularity unmatched since. Yet the conventional wisdom about those Governments is full of the unemployment that they inherited, as it is of the image of Neville Chamberlain trying and failing to buy peace from Hitler at Munich. For then comes the Second World War and Winston Churchill and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333726198
SKU
V9780333726198
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About Geoffrey K. Fry
GEOFFREY FRY has been Professor of British Government and Administration at the University of Leeds since 1993. He has written six previous books including Statesmen in Disguise, which established itself as the standard history of the British Higher Civil Service, and other important works of academic scholarship analysing the history and development of British public policy and administration.
Reviews for The Politics of Crisis: An Interpretation of British Politics, 1931-1945
'...this book is a valuable review of the historical literature on the subject.' - Choice