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UNINA9910459430303321 |
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Attlee's great contemporaries : the politics of character / / edited by Frank Field ; afterword by Peter Hennessy |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
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1-282-87382-2 |
9786612873829 |
1-4411-2944-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Statesmen - Great Britain - History - 20th centurty |
Political leadership |
Socialism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introductory essay: a social democrat in action; 1. Lansbury of London, Observer; 2. The King I Knew; 3. Truth About the War; 4. The Pleasure of Books; 5. Good Patriot and Bad Politician; 6. Keir Hardie; 7. England My England; 8. Blue Stocking in Action; 9. A Good Man; 10. Montgomery: My Assessment; 11. George Lansbury: Man of His Day; 12. Mr. Churchill's Eden; 13. The Role of the Monarchy; 14. The Hiroshima Choice; 15. An American 'Statesman of the Century'; 16. Uncle Fred Looks Back; 17. Jumping the Gun; 18. What Sort of Man Gets to the Top?; 19. Flaws at the Top |
20. A Name for Loyalty21. A Man of Power; 22. An Unextinguished Flame; 23. Bevan as Hero; 24. Courageous Intellectual; 25. She Made Things Hum; 26. Toynbee Hall Looks to the Future; 27. In the Driver's Seat; 28. The Man I Knew; 29. Quite Possibly a Classic; 30. Mr. Macmillan's Early Political Life and Times; Epilogue: Professor Peter Hennessey; Index |
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In 1946, Clement Attlee came to power as Labour Prime Minister with a huge landslide majority. Under his leadership, some of the greatest |
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reforms were initiated, not least the founding of The National Health Service. Attlee had a firm vision of a more just and equitable society, which the nation wanted. This firm vision is something that attracts Frank Field. To Field, Attlee is a hero. After retirement, Clement Attlee wrote a masterly series of profiles of his great contemporaries, many published at the time in The Observer. These are now collected together in a book for the first time. They |
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UNINA9910797685603321 |
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Time travel television : the past from the present, the future from the past / / edited by Sherry Ginn, Gillian I. Leitc |
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Lanham [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Science fiction television |
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Science fiction television programs - History and criticism |
Time travel on television |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 On Disassociative Configurations of Time and Space; Part I: Examining Origins; 2 Trekking through Postmodern Time in Star Trek: The Next Generation; 3 Time Travel as Trope in Television Series; 4 No Fate, or Is There?; 5 From Slingshots to Prophetic Orbs; 6 A Tempting Narrative or a Temporal Gimmick; 7 "The Last Best Hope for Peace"; Part II: Correcting the Past; 8 The Past Comes Back to Kill You; 9 "It's All in Books!"; 10 Creating the Past; 11 Doctor Who and History |
12 Historical Approaches to History in The Time Tunnel, Voyagers!, and Quantum Leap13 Altering Human Evolution; 14 "Time Machines Are Nothin' but Trouble"; 15 Now Voyagers!; 16 Star Trek: Voyager and Time Travel; 17 Many Roads Traveled; Part III: Exploring the Future; 18 Twenty-Five Years of Smegging Up the Time-Space Continuum; 19 The |
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Time Tunnel; 20 The Impossible Girl and the New World; 21 Narrative and Paradoxes in Doctor Who "Time-Loop" Stories; 22 "Did I Mention It Also Travels in Time?"; Bibliography; Videography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
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This book explores how time travel has been used as a plot device in a number of television shows, including iconic programs like Doctor Who, Heroes, Lost, Quantum Leap, Red Dwarf, and the Star Trek franchise, among others. It is organized into three general themes-Origins, Correcting the Past, and Exploring the Future. |
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