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Labour's European Dilemmas Since 1945: From Bevin to Blair (Contemporary History in Context)
Roger Broad
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Description for Labour's European Dilemmas Since 1945: From Bevin to Blair (Contemporary History in Context)
Hardcover. For 30 years the Labour Party was wracked by conflict over membership of the European Community, swinging back and forth, pro and anti, when in and out of office. It was a conflict that helped keep the party in opposition for 18 years until it abandoned its socialist basis under New Labour. Series: Contemporary History in Context S. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; JPFF; JPL; JPSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 527.
For thirty years the Labour Party was wracked by conflict over membership of the European Community, swinging back and forth, pro and anti, when in and out of office. It was a conflict that helped keep the party in opposition for eighteen years until it abandoned its socialist basis under New Labour. The author as journalist and European Union official knew many of the major and minor players and brings this experience to bear.
For thirty years the Labour Party was wracked by conflict over membership of the European Community, swinging back and forth, pro and anti, when in and out of office. It was a conflict that helped keep the party in opposition for eighteen years until it abandoned its socialist basis under New Labour. The author as journalist and European Union official knew many of the major and minor players and brings this experience to bear.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary History in Context S.
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333801604
SKU
V9780333801604
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99-15
About Roger Broad
ROGER BROAD graduated in Modern History from The Queen's College, Oxford. As a journalist he wrote for the Birmingham Post, Financial Times and other journals and newspapers. In 1964-73 he worked for the European Commission and in 1973-86 headed the European Parliament's UK office. With R.J. Jarrett he write he wrote Community Europe and with Virginia Preston has recently edited ... Read more
Reviews for Labour's European Dilemmas Since 1945: From Bevin to Blair (Contemporary History in Context)
'The shifting attitudes of the Labour Party towards European integration between the premiership of Clement Attlee and that of Tony Blair provide a central theme of British History in the second half of the twentieth century. This lucid and well-researched survey for the student and the general reader, written by an Oxford-trained historian who later worked for both the European ... Read more