03496oam 22006734a 450 991079761020332120170918165654.01-78499-157-01-78170-879-71-78499-156-2(CKB)3710000000493222(EBL)4083622(SSID)ssj0001578433(PQKBManifestationID)16253762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001578433(PQKBWorkID)14861242(PQKB)11416396(MiAaPQ)EBC4083622(StDuBDS)EDZ0001281002(OCoLC)982020423(MdBmJHUP)muse59494(DE-B1597)658797(DE-B1597)9781784991562(EXLCZ)99371000000049322220151209d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe art of the possiblePolitics and governance in modern British history, 1885–1997: Essays in memory of Duncan Tanner /Edited by Chris Williams and Andrew EdwardsManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2015.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©2015.1 online resource (270 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7190-9071-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Editors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Duncan Tanner and the art of the possible: understanding politics and governance in modern British history -- 1 The making and remaking of ‘common sense’ about British economic policy -- 2 The ‘Big State’ versus the ‘Big Society’ in twentieth-century Britain -- 3 ‘One meaning blots out another’? Liberals and Labour in the East Midlands coalfield -- 4 Cartooning the rise of Labour, 1900–21 -- 5 Novels for ‘thinking people’: fiction and the inter-war broad left -- 6 Myth and counter-myth in Second World War British politics -- 7 Labour, nationalism and the problem of Welsh devolution, c.1939–64 -- 8 Defending the constitution: the Conservative party and the idea of devolution, 1945–74 -- 9 Public and private languages of ‘class’ in the Luton by-election of 1963 -- 10 Community and the Labour left in 1970s London -- 11 Labour, the Union and the rebirth of Welsh devolution -- Duncan Tanner: a select bibliography -- IndexThis title explores some of the major transitions, opportunities and false dawns of modern British political history. It engages with the scholarly legacy of Professor Duncan Tanner (1958-2010) whose work was focused on the political process and on politics in government.HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralbisacshGreat BritainPolitics and government20th centuryElectronic books. Duncan Tanner.Governance.Government.Modern Britain.Modern Wales.Politics.HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.941.082Edwards Andrew1964-Williams Chris1963-MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910797610203321The art of the possible3770402UNINA