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  • © 1989

The Political Geography of Contemporary Britain

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Thatcherism and the New Politics

    • Andrew Gamble
    Pages 1-17
  3. Nationalisms in a Disunited Kingdom

    • James Anderson
    Pages 35-50
  4. The Changing Electoral Geography of Great Britain

    • R. J. Johnston, C. J. Pattie
    Pages 51-68
  5. The Changing Geography of Trade Unions

    • Doreen Massey, Joe Painter
    Pages 130-150
  6. Women in Thatcher’s Britain

    • Linda McDowell
    Pages 172-186
  7. Transport Policy: Off the Rails?

    • John Whitelegg
    Pages 187-207
  8. Policing the Recession

    • Nicholas R. Fyfe
    Pages 238-254
  9. Environmental Politics and Policy in the 1980s

    • Philip Lowe, Andrew Flynn
    Pages 255-279
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 280-303

About this book

...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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen Mary College, London, UK

    John Mohan

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