Product Description: Britain's second Labour government 1929-31: a reappraisal is a timely collection of essays on Labour's second period in office beset by the international financial crisis of 1929-1931. Contributions from leading historians and younger academics provide fresh insights into a range of topics: the 1929 general election, Labour's economic policy, consumerism, agricultural questions, the Parliamentary Labour Party's role and Tory reaction to the 1929-1931 Labour government...read more

Offers thirty-two essays covering the major aspects of British social, economic, and political history during the early part of the twentieth-century.

Product Description: Part of the 20 Prime Ministers Series

Product Description: Chris Wrigley provides a critical history of the Conservative Party from its rise in popularity under Disraeli and Salisbury in the late nineteenth century to the Thatcher and Major administrations. The author examines the success of the party, its ability to adapt and the reasons for its appeal...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays is based provides a reassessment of Western European trade unionism in the four decades or so before World War I. The essays have been written by teams of historians of different nationalities for comparative study...read more

Product Description: In reviewing major issues concerning the history of British trade unions in the last two-thirds of the twentieth century, this book discusses many controversial aspects of trade unions. It includes their economic impact (a cause of higher unemployment and lower productivity?) and their influence on government (unelected partners?)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In reviewing major issues concerning the history of British trade unions in the last two-thirds of the twentieth century, this book discusses many controversial aspects of trade unions. It includes their economic impact (a cause of higher unemployment and lower productivity?) and their influence on government (unelected partners?)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of essays, all published for the first time in English, provide a fresh look at the critical years of 1917-1920 when revolutionary activity and working-class unrest was rife in Europe. Written by leading authorities in the field, the collection gives wide European coverage, examining developments in the rural provinces and key cities of both Western and Central Europe in the period after the Great War. In-depth studies analyse the causes and extent of protest, the factors which contributed to its initial success and failure and the influence of the propertied classes and re-establishment of the old order. The introduction and conclusion draw the essays together, giving a clear account of the principal themes and establishing the comparative structure of the book. The essays provide major coverage of a crucial period of modern history and should raise many new questions about the events of those years.

Product Description: This book provides a fresh assessment of the impact of the First World War on the international economy. Leading academics offer new perspectives on the effects of the War on the long-term growth rates of the belligerent countries and examine its impact on individual sectors within these economies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Historian A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) established his reputation through his work in diplomatic history. This collection brings together a selection of his essays and reviews in international history.

Updates the classic study of the industrial revolution, while exploring Britain's rise and subsequent decline from industrial power

Product Description: Examines a contentious area of post-1945 British political and economic history. The text provides an analysis of trade union development, trade union relations with government and trade union impact on industrial relations and the economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This authoritative history offers a major assessment of British industrial relations between the outbreak of the Second World War and the advent of Margaret Thatcher's government in 1979. Written by a group of leading specialists, this outstanding book examines the role of the government, the unions and employers, the influence of social welfare considerations on industrial relations policies and the patterns of strikes...read more

Contains essays selected from previous collections bringing together the author's best work on nineteenth-century British and continental European history

Product Description: This is a study of British industrial relations during the period 1914-1939, written by leading authorities in the field. The text provides a detailed analysis of industrial relations during World War I, followed by essays on selected themes and individual case studies for the inter-war period...read more

Product Description: Professor Wrigley's monograph looks at 20th century British history. Its major subject is the development of the state's role in industrial relations during the first world war. It focuses on the key role of David Lloyd George, and also provides an examination of his earlier relationship with the labour movement and his efforts at conciliation while a cabinet minister in the pre-war liberal governments...read more

Product Description: Professor Wrigley assesses the main features of Lloyd George's career beginning with his early days when he established a major reputation as a fiery Radical concerned with political and social issues in North Wales in the 1880s and 1890s...read more

Product Description: Book by Wrigley, Chris

Product Description: Lloyd George and the Challenge of Labour: Post-War Coalition, 1918-1922

Product Description: Arthur Henderson is a pivotal figure in the emergence of the British trade union and labour movement. Along perhaps with Herbert Morrison and James Callaghan, he has been the central and most representative personality in the British Labour party's evolution from being a party of protest to becoming a party of power...read more