| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ewen Green and Duncan Tanner -- pt. I. Economic ideas and political leaders -- 1. Utilitarian or neo-foxite whig? Robert Lowe as Chancellor of the Exchequer / Boyd Hilton -- 2. Political economy, the labour movement and the minimum wage, 1880-1914 / James Thompson -- 3. Economic interpretations of war : American liberals and US entry into World War I / John A. Thompson -- 4. Political leadership, intellectual debate and economic policy during the second Labour government, 1929-1931 / Duncan Tanner -- pt. II. The use and abuse of economic ideas : Keynes and his interpreters -- 5. The Labour party and Keynes / Richard Toye -- 6. The Conservative party and Keynes / Ewen Green -- 7. Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945-1953 / Eugenio Biagini -- pt. III. Economic forces and their significance -- 8. Where did it all go wrong? Cultural critics and 'modernity' in inter-war Britain / Stefan Collini -- 9. Moral choice and economics : British political economy in the twentieth century / Barry Supple. |
| Summary |
This edited work examines the imperatives that have helped to shape political values. An extensive introduction places the essays in the context of a broad but little-studied approach to history. Essays are featured by leading economic and intellectual historians. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
|
|
Great Britain. |
|
Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 20th century.
|
|
Economic policy. |
|
Values -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Values. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1800-2007 |
|
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Added Author |
Green, E. H. H., 1958-2006.
|
|
Tanner, Duncan.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Strange survival of liberal England. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521881678 (DLC) 2008297254 (OCoLC)154706408 |
| ISBN |
9780511379178 (electronic book) |
|
051137917X (electronic book) |
|
9780511496240 (ebook) |
|
0511496249 (ebook) |
|
9780521881678 (hardback) |
|
0521881676 (hardback) |
|
0521329612 |
|
9780521329613 |
|
