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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132194803321

Autore

Geppert Dominik

Titolo

Thatchers konservative Revolution : Der Richtungswandel der britischen Tories (1975-1979) / / Dominik Geppert; German Historical Institute London

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2002

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, , [2011]

©2002

ISBN

3-486-70751-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London/ Publications of the German Historical Institute London ; ; BAND 53

Classificazione

MG 42335

Disciplina

941.085092

Soggetti

Political science

Great Britain Politics and government 1964-1979

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Prolog: Thatchers Wahl zur Parteiführerin -- I. Der Thatcher-Faktor -- II. Der Zusammenbruch der Nachkriegsordnung -- III. Der Aufschwung der "neuen Rechten" -- IV. Widerstände gegen den Thatcher-Kurs und ihre Überwindung -- Schlussbetrachtung und Ausblick -- Back Matter

Sommario/riassunto

Opinions have been divided on Margaret Thatcher to this day. Her admirers compare her to Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill or simply consider her the greatest politician of the 20th century. Her opponents accuse her of having transformed Britain into a country where selfishness and greed reign. Dominik Geppert deals with Thatcher's years as an opposition leader in the British House of Commons, which has so far been neglected by research, starting with her surprising election as Conservative party leader in February 1975 to taking office as Prime Minister in May 1979. These were not only the years of the politician's mark, but at the same time the formative phase of the political and ideological phenomenon to which it has given its name. Geppert analyses the early years of Thatcherism against the background of the worsening political and economic crisis in Great Britain, the rise of the economically liberal paradigm and the British



"New Right". He paints a picture of a society in transition - from Labour dominance to Tory rule, from state to market trust, from consensus to conflict.