Attlee / Robert Pearce
- Bib ID:
- 1839
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pearce, R. D. (Robert D.)
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- London ; New York : Longman, 1997
- vii, 206 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0582256909
- 0582256917
- Series:
- Profiles in power (London, England)
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: CHAPTER 1 The Child and the Man 7
- Attlee's Character: the Insider-Outsider 10
- CHAPTER 2 Attlee's Apprenticeship, 1905-31 16
- Social Work and Socialism 16
- The First World War 22
- Local Government 24
- Member of Parliament, 1922-29 29
- The Simon Commission 36
- Labour Government 1929-31 38
- CHAPTER 3 The Rise to the Leadership, 1931-35 46
- The Labour Opposition, 1931-35 49
- The Policy Debate 55
- The Acting Leadership 63
- The 1935 General Election and the
- Leadership Contest 64
- CHALPTER 4 Attlee and Appeasement, 1935-40 71
- Attlee as Labour Leader 71
- Domestic Affairs 73
- Foreign Policy up to 1937 77
- Foreign Policy, 1937-39 82
- Attlee's Foreign Policy: an Assessment 84
- Labour and the 'Phoney War' 87
- CHAPTER 5 Attlee's War 93
- kttlee as Minister 95
- Attlee and Churchill 100
- Attlee and Labour 105
- IThe End of the Coalition 112
- CHAPTER 6 Elections and the Prernierships 117
- The 1945 General Election 117
- Attlee and Cabinet Making 121
- Attlee as Prime Minister 122
- The 1950 Election 131
- Attlee's Second Administration 132
- The 1951 Election 136
- CHAPTER 7 Attlee's Governments, 1945-51:
- Domestic Affairs 140
- The Economy 141
- The Welfare State 151
- Omissions 157
- CHAPTER 8 Attlee's Governments, 1945-51:
- Foreign and Imperial Affairs 161
- Foreign Affairs 161
- Impeirial Affairs 169
- CHAPTER 9 Anti-Climax: Opposition and After,
- 1951-67 176
- Party Leader, 1951-55 176
- 1955: General Election and Resignation 181
- Retirement, 1955-67 182
- Conclusion Attlee in Perspective 185
- Further Reading 191
- Chronology 196
- Index 201.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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