10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE BRITISH DISEASE»
Discover the use of
the British disease in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the British disease and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A History of
the Peoples of
the British Isles
government not to shut Britain off from the rest of the world and run a self-
sufficient "fortress" economy, the British had to import large quantities of
foodstuffs and raw materials every day. In addition, the demand for consumer
goods — mainly ...
2
British Economic Development Since 1945
Finally, two efforts to explain the British disease in terms of cultural influences
have provoked enormous interest. Both Martin Wiener, English Culture and the
Decline of the Industrial Spirit, Cambridge, 1981, and Correlli Barnett, The Audit
of ...
Alan Booth (Ph. D.), 1995
3
British Politics and
the Environment
Winning power at a time when Britain had been experiencing persistent
economic decline and political disfunction, Thatcher believed she had identified
the key elements of the “British disease”, and set out to give Britain the hard
medicine that ...
John McCormick, Professor of Political Science John McCormick, 2013
4
Margaret Thatcher's Revolution Revised Edition: How It ...
Phrases of the times, such as 'the British disease', 'stagflation', 'the winter of our
discontent', 'the three day week', etc., evoke painful memories. The spell of
communism continued to enthral many among Britain's academic and intellectual
elite ...
Subroto Roy, John Clarke, 2006
5
The Anatomy of Thatcherism
The tension became especially troublesome in the educational policies. It was
produced by the Thatcherite acceptance of the diagnosis which blamed the
British disease on admiration for the liberally educated gentleman. The marriage
of this ...
Shirley Robin Letwin, 1993
6
The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
An early illustration is Nevil .Iohnson's In Search of the Constitution (1977) which
promoted the thesis that the constitutional dimension to the British disease
manifested itself in 'the atrophy of any language in which we can talk of
constitutional ...
7
The British Industrial Decline
Barnett, mindful also of the Victorian roots of the British 'disease', saw the sad
history of Britain's economy as very much a twentieth-century event and the
1940s as its most critical moment. How did the specialist economic historians
who had ...
Michael Dintenfass, Jean-Pierre Dormois, 2002
8
Washington, Westminster, and Whitehall
that policy or analytic considerations should dominate politics at the presidential
or Cabinet levels, but rather that politics ought not be too dominant. THE BRITISH
DISEASE Britain's economic decline relative to other Western nations concerns ...
9
Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture
THE BRITISH DISEASE: IT MEETS BD The 1980s has been the decade in which
British society was diagnosed as ill - suffering from the 'British disease'. Although,
as Peter Scott explains, this metaphor of illness became associated with 'a ...
John Corner, Sylvia Harvey, 1991
10
Westland and
the British Helicopter Industry, 1945-1960: ...
... the dominant interpretation is 'one of disappointments: it was a story of
grandiose projects gone wrong'.15 On this basis, aircraft procurement has been
held up as a classic example of the 'British disease', or the inability of UK
manufacturers ...
Matthew R.H. Uttley, 2014
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE BRITISH DISEASE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
the British disease is used in the context of the following news items.
George Osborne has missed his chance to end the British disease
For sheer brass, it is hard to beat the mellifluous assertions of the Chancellor. “We do not shy away from the problems that remain unresolved in the British ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
The British Disease and Its Cure
Sneered at by the gentry and envied by the navvies, the middle class was struggling to survive between 1945 and 1979, as Britain and the productive part of its ... «Barron's, Apr 13»
Critics of the BBC have the 'British disease', says Brian Cox
And what the British disease is, is to even consider damaging that institution." ... the importance of the sciences to Britain, pointing out that "6.7 per cent of UK ... «The Independent, Aug 11»
American politics has caught the British disease
When David Cameron visits the United States this week, he will find a country whose national political argument has become more like our own in Britain than ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 10»
