Thatcher's Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town: Modern British Histories
Autor Guy Ortolanoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iun 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781108482660
ISBN-10: 110848266X
Pagini: 316
Ilustrații: 17 b/w illus. 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 158 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Modern British Histories
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 110848266X
Pagini: 316
Ilustrații: 17 b/w illus. 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 158 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Modern British Histories
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of maps; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Horizons; 2. Planning; 3. Architecture; 4. Community; 5. Consulting; 6. Housing; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.
Recenzii
'[S]mart, forensic, geographically situated … Ortolano shows us how the government policies of the 1980s - never repudiated - prefigured the terrible housing crisis in Britain today.' Susan Pedersen, London Review of Books
'Ortolano's brilliant book allows us not only to grasp that cultural world, but more generally to appreciate how the construction of Milton Keynes illustrates fundamental changes in British society.' Martin Daunton, The Journal of Modern History
'Ortolano not only gives us a strikingly rich account of a key state investment, but also contributes to a wider discussion about how we frame post-war British history … This book is a key text within the 'New Urban Political History'.' Tom Kelsey, English Historical Review
'[A] wide-ranging, elegantly written, deeply serious, forcefully argued book, with an impressive command of multiple historiographies … It should become a model for writing histories that provide inventive answers to intellectually ambitious questions …' Otto Saumarez Smith, Reviews in History
'… Ortolano situates a seemingly provincial moment of British planning in a distinctly global context … In Thatcher's Progress, Ortolano has produced one of the stand-out studies of urban history in the last few years. This is precise, stimulating material that showcases the characteristic thoughtfulness and precision of the author's work … This book deserves to be read widely and will likely find a market beyond the academy …' James Greenhalgh, Urban History
'… by revealing the real and potential dynamism of social-democratic politics, architecture, and ideology in one community, [Ortolano] suggests and provides a way for scholars to rethink the features and fortunes of other political orders, such as New Deal liberalism, at every scale.' Daniel Wortel-London, Journal of Urban History
'… Thatcher's Progress will be essential reading for a diverse range of scholars - from those interested in the history of urban space, architecture, and housing to those concerned with questions of identity, transnational intellectual politics, or the legacies of empire - and its approach will encourage every historian of postwar Britain to reconsider linear narratives which flatten social democracy's vibrant history.' David Civil, Journal of British Studies
'Rectifying decades of denigration, Thatcher's Progress is a story of unintended consequences, unrealised futures, and historical change from the perspective of history's losers, charting the complex relationship between the two rival ideological formations that dominated the latter half of the twentieth century.' Freddie Meade, Contemporary British History
'… Ortolano's new book is an insightful approach for those interested not only in British and urban history, but also in terms of revealing the dynamic and shifting nature of ideologies from a historical perspective.' Iker Itoiz Ciáurriz, Journal of Contemporary History
'Modern British political history is coming to be written through urban history. With great deftness, and a nice sense of irony, Guy Ortolano tracks the transition from social democracy to neo-liberalism through the history of Milton Keynes. The result is a significant new study of the continuities as well as the changes in 'Thatcherism'.' Simon Gunn, University of Leicester
'A fascinating account of the spatial politics of the British new towns program. Ortolano's lively history of Milton Keynes illuminates the rise and fall of British social democracy and the legacy of postwar urban planning. Thatcher's Progress is a masterly portrait of an iconic urban place. Elegantly written and a trailblazing interpretive frame makes this an instant classic in urban history.' Rosemary Wakeman, author of Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement
'… [An] important and highly erudite book. [It] makes an original and largely persuasive case, one less about Milton Keynes alone than about how later twentieth-century British and intellectual history is too one-dimensionally periodized, as is the enduring vitality of progressive ideas.' Jeremy Nuttall, American Historical Review
'Ortolano's brilliant book allows us not only to grasp that cultural world, but more generally to appreciate how the construction of Milton Keynes illustrates fundamental changes in British society.' Martin Daunton, The Journal of Modern History
'Ortolano not only gives us a strikingly rich account of a key state investment, but also contributes to a wider discussion about how we frame post-war British history … This book is a key text within the 'New Urban Political History'.' Tom Kelsey, English Historical Review
'[A] wide-ranging, elegantly written, deeply serious, forcefully argued book, with an impressive command of multiple historiographies … It should become a model for writing histories that provide inventive answers to intellectually ambitious questions …' Otto Saumarez Smith, Reviews in History
'… Ortolano situates a seemingly provincial moment of British planning in a distinctly global context … In Thatcher's Progress, Ortolano has produced one of the stand-out studies of urban history in the last few years. This is precise, stimulating material that showcases the characteristic thoughtfulness and precision of the author's work … This book deserves to be read widely and will likely find a market beyond the academy …' James Greenhalgh, Urban History
'… by revealing the real and potential dynamism of social-democratic politics, architecture, and ideology in one community, [Ortolano] suggests and provides a way for scholars to rethink the features and fortunes of other political orders, such as New Deal liberalism, at every scale.' Daniel Wortel-London, Journal of Urban History
'… Thatcher's Progress will be essential reading for a diverse range of scholars - from those interested in the history of urban space, architecture, and housing to those concerned with questions of identity, transnational intellectual politics, or the legacies of empire - and its approach will encourage every historian of postwar Britain to reconsider linear narratives which flatten social democracy's vibrant history.' David Civil, Journal of British Studies
'Rectifying decades of denigration, Thatcher's Progress is a story of unintended consequences, unrealised futures, and historical change from the perspective of history's losers, charting the complex relationship between the two rival ideological formations that dominated the latter half of the twentieth century.' Freddie Meade, Contemporary British History
'… Ortolano's new book is an insightful approach for those interested not only in British and urban history, but also in terms of revealing the dynamic and shifting nature of ideologies from a historical perspective.' Iker Itoiz Ciáurriz, Journal of Contemporary History
'Modern British political history is coming to be written through urban history. With great deftness, and a nice sense of irony, Guy Ortolano tracks the transition from social democracy to neo-liberalism through the history of Milton Keynes. The result is a significant new study of the continuities as well as the changes in 'Thatcherism'.' Simon Gunn, University of Leicester
'A fascinating account of the spatial politics of the British new towns program. Ortolano's lively history of Milton Keynes illuminates the rise and fall of British social democracy and the legacy of postwar urban planning. Thatcher's Progress is a masterly portrait of an iconic urban place. Elegantly written and a trailblazing interpretive frame makes this an instant classic in urban history.' Rosemary Wakeman, author of Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement
'… [An] important and highly erudite book. [It] makes an original and largely persuasive case, one less about Milton Keynes alone than about how later twentieth-century British and intellectual history is too one-dimensionally periodized, as is the enduring vitality of progressive ideas.' Jeremy Nuttall, American Historical Review
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Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain's transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.