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Author:   John Shepherd ,  Jonathan Davis ,  Chris Wrigley ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780719086144

ISBN 10:   0719086140
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   20 January 2012
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction - John Shepherd and Jonathan Davis 2. The 1929 election reconsidered - Andrew Thorpe 3. Labour dealing with Labour: aspects of economic policy - Chris Wrigley 4. Why was there no Keynesian revolution under the Second Labour government? Reassessing Sir Oswald Mosley’s alternative economic agenda - Daniel Ritschel 5. The ‘Loyal Lump’: The Parliamentary Labour Party during the second Labour government - Robert Taylor 6. The Independent Labour Party and the second Labour government 1929-1931: the move towards revolutionary change - Keith Laybourn 7. The second Labour government and the consumer - Nicole Robertson 8. The end of free trade: agricultural crisis and the politics of the national interest - Clare Griffiths 9. Labour and the Kremlin - Jonathan Davis 10. ‘Bolshevism Run Mad’: Labour and socialism in 1931 - John Callaghan 11. The right looks left. The ‘Young Tory’ response to the 1929-31 Labour government - Richard Carr 12. Remembering 1931: an invention of tradition - David Howell 13. Conclusion - Chris Wrigley -- .

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As well as containing an excellent and extensive literature review of labour's history around the period 1929-31, the book offers a stimulating and energetic re-examination of a period in Labour's history that has been well-documented and no doubt will continue to be so. (William Stallard, Political Studies Review, May 2014) -- William Stallard. Political Studies Review

As well as containing an excellent and extensive literature review of labour's history around the period 1929-31, the book offers a stimulating and energetic re-examination of a period in Labour's history that has been well-documented and no doubt will continue to be so. (William Stallard, Political Studies Review, May 2014) -- .

Author Information

John Shepherd is Visiting Professor in Modern British History at the University of Huddersfield. Jonathan Davis is Principal Lecturer in Russian and Modern European History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Chris Wrigley is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Nottingham.

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