Bang!
Subtitle: a history of Britain in the 1980s
By: Graham Stewart
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9781848871458; 9781848871465; 9781782391371
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Nineteen eighties; Sozialer Wandel; Politik; Manners and customs; History; Kultur
Description: 1980s Britain - big hair, big bombs, big riots. In 'Bang!' Graham Stewart has written the history of this turbulent, vibrant and revolutionary decade.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-523) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Jim [Callaghan]'ll fix it (Waiting at the church ; Floating or sinking? ; Crisis? What crisis? ; the ayes to the right); title: 2. Hello Maggie [Thatcher]! (Marketing Maggie ; Five weeks that shaped a decade? ; A woman in power); title: 3. The centre cannot hold (The joy of monetarism ; The pain of monetarism ; 'Wets' and 'dries' ; Trouble for Tina); title: 4. Ghost town (Breadline Britain ; Long hot summer: the Brixton and Toxteth riots ; The hunger strikes); title: 5. The alternative (The democracy of the committed ; Gang of four: bright dawn over Limehouse ; The donkey-jacket tendency ; Breaking the mould?); title: 6. The empire strikes back (The last good-old-fashioned war? ; White flags over Whitehall ; Towards the abyss; Sink the Belgrano! ; White flags over Stanley); title: 7. Resurrection (The resolute approach ; Recovery ; The North Sea oil bonanza ... and where it went); title: 8. Tow tribes (Protest and survive ; Protect and survive ; Cold thaw).; title: 9. Culture shock (Paying the piper ; Next programme follows shortly ; You have been watching ... ; The British are coming ... and going); title: 10. Style over substance (After Modernism ; Po-Mo: the spirit of the age); title: 11. Electric baroque (Are friends 'electric'? ; Ridicule is nothing to be scared of ; Money for nothing ; The rise and fall of the indies ; Welcome to the acid house ; Madchester); title: 12. Moral panic (No such thing as society ; Law and disorder ; Don't die of ignorance ; Faith, hope and charity ; Liberty, equality, fraternity?); title: 13. The workers, united, will never be defeated (Which side are you on? The miners' strike ; The end of the Street: revolution at Wapping ; On the waterfront ; United they stand?); title: 14. Creative destruction (Rolling back the state ; A tale of two cities ; The predators' ball ; Greed is good ; Loaded, landed, leveraged); title: 15. An end to old certainties (Ten more years! Ten more years! ; Whitehall versus Town Hall ; The diet of Brussels ; Scrapping the Iron lady); title: 16. Legacy.