When Margaret Thatcher was ousted from Downing Street in November 1990 after eleven years of bitter social and economic conflict, many hoped that the decade to come would be more 'caring'; others hoped that the more radical policies of her revolution might even be overturned. Across politi...

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1. Verfasser:	Turner, Alwyn W.
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York : Aurum Press, 2013.
Schlagworte:	Since 1945 Nineteen nineties. Années quatre-vingt-dix (Vingtième siècle) Nineteen nineties Social conditions Soziale Situation Soziale Situation. Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945- Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 1945- Great Britain Großbritannien Großbritannien.
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Zusammenfassung:	When Margaret Thatcher was ousted from Downing Street in November 1990 after eleven years of bitter social and economic conflict, many hoped that the decade to come would be more 'caring'; others hoped that the more radical policies of her revolution might even be overturned. Across politics and culture there was an apparent yearning for something the Iron Lady had famously dismissed: society. The 'New Britain' to emerge would be a contradiction: economically unequal but culturally classless. Whilst Westminster agonised over sleaze and the ERM, the country outside became the playground of the Ladette. It was also a period that would see old moral certainties swept aside, and once venerable institutions descend into farce-followed, in the case of the Royal Family, by tragedy. Opening with a war in the Gulf and ending with the attacks of 11 September 2001, A Classless Society goes in search of the decade when modern Britain came of age. What it finds is a nation anxiously grappling with new technologies, tentatively embracing new lifestyles, and, above all, forging a new sense of what it means to be British.
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ISBN:	9781781311424 1781311420