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Beckett, Andy

 
9781846145155: Promised You A Miracle: Why 1980-82 Made Modern Britain
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ISBN 10 : 1846145155 ISBN 13 : 9781846145155
Editeur : Allen Lane, 2015

Synopsis

The early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread: of Cold War tension and imminent conflict, when crowds in the street could mean an ecstatic national celebration or an inner-city riot. Here, Andy Beckett recreates an often misunderstood moment of transition, with all its potential and uncertainty: the first precarious years of Margaret Thatcher's government. By the end of 1982, the country was changing, leaving the kinder, more sluggish postwar Britain decisively behind, and becoming the country we have lived in ever since: assertive, commercially driven, outward-looking, often harsher than its neighbours.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andy Beckett writes for the Guardian. He has also written for the Economist, The New York Times magazine, the London Review of Books and the Independent on Sunday. His previous books are When the Lights Went Out and Pinochet in Piccadilly.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1846145155
ISBN 13 
9781846145155
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
464
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