Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951-1970

by Brian Harrison

Book Overview

In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be a great power whose welfare
state exemplified compromise between Soviet planning and the USA's free market. When the volume ends in 1970, no such claims carried conviction. The empire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199605130
• ISBN13: 9780199605132
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"