An edition of Bang!
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Bang!
a history of Britain in the 1980s
by Graham Stewart
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1980s Britain - big hair, big bombs, big riots. In 'Bang!' Graham Stewart has written the history of this turbulent, vibrant and revolutionary decade.
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Politics and government, Social life and customs, Nineteen eighties, Sozialer Wandel, Politik, Manners and customs, History, Kultur, Great britain, history, Great britain, politics and government, 1979-1997, Great britain, social life and customs, Great britain, social conditionsPlaces
Great Britain, GroßbritannienTimes
1979-1997, 1945-, Elizabeth II, 1952-Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Jim [Callaghan]'ll fix it (Waiting at the church ; Floating or sinking? ; Crisis? What crisis? ; the ayes to the right)
2. Hello Maggie [Thatcher]! (Marketing Maggie ; Five weeks that shaped a decade? ; A woman in power)
3. The centre cannot hold (The joy of monetarism ; The pain of monetarism ; 'Wets' and 'dries' ; Trouble for Tina)
4. Ghost town (Breadline Britain ; Long hot summer: the Brixton and Toxteth riots ; The hunger strikes)
5. The alternative (The democracy of the committed ; Gang of four: bright dawn over Limehouse ; The donkey-jacket tendency ; Breaking the mould?)
6. The empire strikes back (The last good-old-fashioned war? ; White flags over Whitehall ; Towards the abyss; Sink the Belgrano! ; White flags over Stanley)
7. Resurrection (The resolute approach ; Recovery ; The North Sea oil bonanza ... and where it went)
8. Tow tribes (Protest and survive ; Protect and survive ; Cold thaw).
9. Culture shock (Paying the piper ; Next programme follows shortly ; You have been watching ... ; The British are coming ... and going)
10. Style over substance (After Modernism ; Po-Mo: the spirit of the age)
11. Electric baroque (Are friends 'electric'? ; Ridicule is nothing to be scared of ; Money for nothing ; The rise and fall of the indies ; Welcome to the acid house ; Madchester)
12. Moral panic (No such thing as society ; Law and disorder ; Don't die of ignorance ; Faith, hope and charity ; Liberty, equality, fraternity?)
13. The workers, united, will never be defeated (Which side are you on? The miners' strike ; The end of the Street: revolution at Wapping ; On the waterfront ; United they stand?)
14. Creative destruction (Rolling back the state ; A tale of two cities ; The predators' ball ; Greed is good ; Loaded, landed, leveraged)
15. An end to old certainties (Ten more years! Ten more years! ; Whitehall versus Town Hall ; The diet of Brussels ; Scrapping the Iron lady)
16. Legacy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-523) and index.
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