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" The politics of crisis : "
Geoffrey K. Fry.
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BL
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985927
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b740297
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Fry, Geoffrey Kingdon.
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The politics of crisis : : an interpretation of British politics, 1931-1945 /\ Geoffrey K. Fry.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York, N.Y. :: Palgrave,, 2001.
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x, 304 pages ;; 23 cm
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0333726197
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: 0333726227
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: 9780333726198
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: 9780333726228
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-267) and index.
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| Contents
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The ghosts in the machine -- 'The devil's decade': party politics in the era of the national governments 1931-1940 -- 'Waiting for a miracle to happen?': the economic and social policies of the national governments 1931-1940 -- The 'guilty men' amidst 'the gathering storm': the defence and foreign policies of the national governments 1931-1940 -- War with honour: Churchill and the British conduct of the second world war 1940-1945 -- Goodbye to all that: British domestic politics during the Second World War 1940-1945.
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"The Politics of Crisis is an interpretation of the most dramatic period of modern British political history, the decade and a half between 1931 and 1945. Formed to sustain the British economy in the midst of the Great Depression, the National Governments of the 1930s achieved this, and more, and with an electoral popularity unmatched since." "Yet the conventional wisdom about those governments is full of the unemployment that they inherited, as it is of the image of Neville Chamberlain trying and failing to buy peace from Hitler at Munich. For then comes the Second World War and Winston Churchill and victory of a kind for Britain, and a curious form of domestic politics that, with peace restored, witnesses the victor turned out of office. The Politics of Crisis clinically assesses the evidence and these events, and provides a challenging and new interpretation of them."--Jacket.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Great Britain.
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Guerre mondiale (1939-1945)-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Politics and government
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Politieke geschiedenis.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1910-1936.
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Great Britain, Politics and government, 1936-1945.
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Grande-Bretagne, Politique et gouvernement, 1910-1936.
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Grande-Bretagne, Politique et gouvernement, 1936-1945.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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941.083
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DA586.F79 2001
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15.70bcl
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