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Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918 [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Promises / / edited by David Thackeray, Richard Toye
| Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918 [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Promises / / edited by David Thackeray, Richard Toye |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (331 pages) |
| Disciplina | 324.941 |
| Soggetto topico |
History, Modern
World politics Social history History of Britain and Ireland Modern History Political History Social History |
| ISBN | 3-030-46663-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction - David Thackeray and Richard Toye -- 2 Election Promises and Anti-Promises after the Great War - Luke Blaxill -- 3 The ‘Woman’s Point of View’: Women Parliamentary Candidates, 1918-1919 - Lisa Berry-Waite -- 4 ‘A Fighting Man to Fight for You’: The Armed Forces, Ex-servicemen, and British Electoral Politics in the Aftermath of Two World Wars - Matthew Johnson -- 5 Broken Promises and the Remaking of Political Trust: Debating Reconstruction in Britain during the Second World War - Clare Griffiths -- 6 Fiscal Promises: Tax and Spending in British General Elections since 1964 - Aled Davies and Peter Sloman -- 7 The Introduction of Race and Immigration in British Post-imperial Politics: The General Elections of 1964 and 1966 - Emil Sokolov -- 8 The Electoral Promises of Winston Churchill - Richard Toye -- 9 ‘I Promise You This. I Won’t Make Empty Promises’. The Election Manifestos of Margaret Thatcher - David Thackeray -- 10 Custodians of the Manifesto: The Struggle over Labour’s Electoral Platforms, 1974-1983 - Mark Wickham-Jones -- 11 Thatcherism, the SDP and Vernacular Politics on the Isle of Sheppey, c. 1978-83 - Jon Lawrence -- 12 The Promise of ‘Liberal Democracy’, c. 1981-2010 - Mike Finn -- 13 ‘We Made a Pledge, We Did Not Stick to It, and For That I am Sorry’: The Liberal Democrats’ 2015 General Election Campaign and the Legacy of the Tuition Fees Debacle - Judi Atkins -- 14 The Rhetorical Lives and Afterlives of Political Pledges in British Political Speech c. 2000-2013 - James Freeman. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910416090703321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975 [[electronic resource] ] : Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets / / edited by David Thackeray, Andrew Thompson, Richard Toye
| Imagining Britain’s Economic Future, c.1800–1975 [[electronic resource] ] : Trade, Consumerism, and Global Markets / / edited by David Thackeray, Andrew Thompson, Richard Toye |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 330.941085 |
| Soggetto topico |
Great Britain—History
Imperialism Economic history World history History, Modern History of Britain and Ireland Imperialism and Colonialism Economic History World History, Global and Transnational History Modern History |
| ISBN | 3-319-71297-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction; David Thackeray, Andrew Thompson and Richard Toye -- Part 1- Markets of the future -- 2 Imagining the opium trade: Britain’s justification for the first Anglo-Chinese War; Hao Gao -- 3 Business in the borderlands: American trade in the South African marketplace, 1871-1902; Stephen Tuffnell; 4 Imagining New Zealand’s economy in the mid-twentieth century; Glen O’ Hara -- Part 2- Imagining global trade -- 5 Racing round the world: geographical board games and Britain’s global expansion, 1780-1850; Paul Young -- 6 British free trade and the international feminist vision for peace, c.1846-1946; Marc-William Palen -- 7 What was a British buy? Empire, Europe and the politics of patriotic trade in Britain, c.1945-63; David Thackeray and Richard Toye -- 8 How self-service happened: the vision and reality of changing market practices in Britain; Lawrence Black and Thomas Spain -- Part 3- Rethinking decolonisation -- 9 Less than an empire and more than British: foreign investor competition in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1960s; Stephanie Decker -- 10 ‘Information after imperialism’: British overseas representation and Francophone Africa (1957-1967); Andrew Smith -- 11 Constructing colonial capitalism: the public relations campaigns of Hong Kong business groups, 1959-1966; David Clayton -- 12 Un-imagining markets: Chambers of Commerce, globalisation and the political economy of the Commonwealth of Nations, 1945-1975; Andrew Dilley -- 13 Commercial preferences: Economics and Britain’s European choices, 1945-2016; Piers Ludlow. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299788603321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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