Is Britain Dying? : : Perspectives on the Current Crisis / / ed. by Isaac Kramnick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Blank, Stephen,; Brand, Jack,; Castle, Barbara,; Dorfman, Gerald A.,; Esman, Milton J.,; Freedman, Lawrence,; Heath, Edward,; KatzneIson, Ira,; Kramnick, Isaac,; Marris, Robin,; Miliband, Ralph,; Nairn, Tom,; Rasmussen, Jorgen S.,; Rosecrance, Richard,; Stansky, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Kramnick, Isaac,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Western Societies Papers Occasional Papers
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 5 illustrations

Mountains of garbage in Leicester Square; racial conflict in the cities; terrorist bombings and assassinations; civil servants refusing to work; futile negotiations between labor and management, and a government impotent to aid them: these recent scenes characterize the plight of modern Britain. A m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction: The Making of a Crisis
• I. THE POLITICIAN’S PERSPECTIVE
• 2. A Tory View
• 3. A Socialist View
• II. THE BRITISH ECONOMY
• 4.The Heath Years: Some Further Thoughts about Union Influence
• 5. Britain’s Economic Problems: Lies and Damn
• 6. Britain’s Relative Economic Decline: A Reply to Stephen Blank
• III.THE MODERN BRITISH STATE
• 7. Was Guy Fawkes Right?
• 8. Women and Equality in Britain
• 9. The Americanization of British Politics
• 10. A State of Desubordination
• IV. ONE BRITAIN?
• 11. From Scotland with Love
• 12. Erosion of the Periphery
• V. THE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM
• 13. Whose Crisis?: Britain as an International Problem
• 14. The Pax Britannica and British Foreign Policy
• VI. THE FUTURE
• 15. The Future of Britain’s Crisis: A Political Analysis
• 16. Toward 1984: George Orwell and Today’s Britain
• Contributors
• Index