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The Politics of Decline

An Interpretation of British Politics from the 1940s to the 1970s

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  • © 2005

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  1. Geoffrey K. Fry

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. ‘A Period of National Humiliation and Decline’

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 1-3

  3. Ghost in the Machine: Britain as a Great Power

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 4-20

  4. Ghost in the Machine: The Keynesian Full Employment Welfare State

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 21-34

  5. Ghost in the Machine: The Electoral Revolution of 1945 and the Veto

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 35-54

  6. Wheat and Tares Together Sown: The Attlee Labour Governments 1945–51

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 55-113

  7. Fast Falls the Eventide: The Churchill Conservative Government 1951–5

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 114-135

  8. The Reckoning: The Eden Conservative Government 1955–7

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 136-154

  9. The Failure of the Middle Way: The Macmillan and Home Conservative Governments 1957–64

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 155-179

  10. The Wrong Revolution: The Wilson Labour Governments 1964–70

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 180-210

  11. The Heath Experiment: The Conservative Government 1970–4

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 211-229

  12. The Last Act: The Labour Governments 1974–6

    • Geoffrey K. Fry
    Pages 230-236

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-307
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Britain was victorious in the Second World War, and yet thirty years later she had many of the characteristics of a defeated nation. What went wrong? The Politics of Decline sets out the assumptions of the 1940s and clinically examines the records of successive Governments as they strove to run the country in the approved manner. The I.M.F. crisis of 1976 brought these efforts to a shuddering halt. Using original sources, this book marshals the evidence to support a compellingly written interpretation of events.

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  • University of Leeds, UK

    Geoffrey K. Fry

About the author

GEOFFREY K. FRY has been Professor of British Government and Administration at the University of Leeds since 1993. He has written several previous books, including Statesmen in Disguise which has established itself as the standard history of the British Higher Civil Service, and other important academic works such as The Politics of Crisis, to which The Politics of Decline is the successor volume.

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