Britain Under Thatcher (Seminar Studies in History) by Anthony Seldon, Daniel Collings

By Anthony Seldon, Daniel Collings

Publish 12 months note: First released November sixth 1999
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This concise, available, and balanced old research of the Thatcher years and their outcomes analyzes many debatable points of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, together with the Falklands struggle, the miner's strike, sour kinfolk with Europe and the ill-fated ballot tax.

Books during this Seminar reports in heritage sequence bridge the distance among textbook and professional survey and comprises a quick "Introduction" and/or "Background" to the topic via a considerable and authoritative component of "Analysis" targeting the most topics and concerns. there's a succinct "Assessment" of the topic, a beneficiant choice of "Documents" and an in depth bibliography.

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