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From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain
Glen O'Hara
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Description for From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain
Hardcover. From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries' planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries' planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government.
From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries' planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
301
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230013476
SKU
V9780230013476
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99-15
About Glen O'Hara
DR GLEN O'HARA is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he won the Gladstone and Eubule Thelwall Prizes for History, and University College London. He is also the joint editor, with Helen Parr, of The Modernization of Britain? Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of 1964-1970.
Reviews for From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain
'An important contribution to our understanding of both the recurring enthusiasms for planning and periodic experiments with the technique in the twentieth century.' - Daniel Ritschel, Twentieth Century British History 'O'Hara is undoubtedly right that there needs to be a detailed, archive-based study which captures the breadth of the planning movement. From Dreams to Disillusionment delivers admirably ... Read more