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The Political Geography of Contemporary Britain

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  • © 1989
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Editors:
  1. John Mohan

    1. Queen Mary College, London, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Thatcherism and the New Politics

    • Andrew Gamble
    Pages 1-17

  3. Britain’s Changing Role in the World-Economy

    • Peter J. Taylor
    Pages 18-34

  4. Nationalisms in a Disunited Kingdom

    • James Anderson
    Pages 35-50

  5. The Changing Electoral Geography of Great Britain

    • R. J. Johnston, C. J. Pattie
    Pages 51-68

  6. The Crisis of Local Government: Uneven Development and the Thatcher Administrations

    • Mark Goodwin, Simon Duncan
    Pages 69-86

  7. Deindustrialisation and State Intervention: Keynesianism, Thatcherism and the Regions

    • Ron Martin
    Pages 87-112

  8. Rewriting History and Reshaping Geography: the Nationalised Industries and the Political Economy of Thatcherism

    • Ray Hudson
    Pages 113-129

  9. The Changing Geography of Trade Unions

    • Doreen Massey, Joe Painter
    Pages 130-150

  10. The Politics of ‘Race’ and a New Segregationism

    • Susan J. Smith
    Pages 151-171

  11. Women in Thatcher’s Britain

    • Linda McDowell
    Pages 172-186

  12. Transport Policy: Off the Rails?

    • John Whitelegg
    Pages 187-207

  13. The Political Geography of Housing in Contemporary Britain

    • Chris Hamnett
    Pages 208-223

  14. Commercialisation and Centralisation: Towards a New Geography of Health Care

    • John Mohan
    Pages 224-237

  15. Policing the Recession

    • Nicholas R. Fyfe
    Pages 238-254

  16. Environmental Politics and Policy in the 1980s

    • Philip Lowe, Andrew Flynn
    Pages 255-279

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 280-303
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...a well conceived book..[which] will be of great value to those wishing to gain an overview of policy changes in the UK in the last decade. The material should be particularly useful in providing a springboard for seminar discussion in a wide range of disciplines.' Steven Pinch, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

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  • Queen Mary College, London, UK

    John Mohan

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