Thatcher and Thatcherism
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Thatcher and Thatcherism

Eric J. Evans

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Eric J. Evans

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This revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of Thatcher and Thatcherism examines the origins and impact of 'Thatcherism' both as a cultural construct and an economic creed from the 1970s to the formation of a coalition government in 2010. New to this edition is an extended exploration of Thatcher's impact outside of the UK, as well as an examination of the assessments published following her death in 2013, providing students with a greater understanding of the legacy of Thatcherism within the modern political landscape.

Focusing on the career of Margaret Thatcher, Eric J. Evans questions both the originality and the ideological coherence of what came to be called 'Thatcherism' and considers to what extent it met, or failed to meet, its main objectives.

Key topics discussed within the book include:

  • Privatisation policies and the attack on trade union power and influence;



  • How Thatcher changed and controlled the latetwentieth-century Conservative Party;



  • The legacy of the Falklands War;



  • Thatcher's relations with Europe – East and West;



  • Thatcher's approach to the professional ethic;



  • The influence of Thatcherism on succeeding governments: Major and 'New Labour';



  • Neo-liberalism and its influence on, and under, Thatcher.



With comprehensive suggestions for further reading and explanation of the economic, social and historical context of Britain in the late 1970s and 1980s, Thatcher and Thatcherism is an invaluable guide to the complexities and paradoxes of Britain from the late 1970s to the second decade of the twenty-first century.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9780429892769
Edition
4
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History
1 
The 
1970s
Explanations 
and 
origins
Introduction
Margaret 
Thatcher’s 
political 
career 
was 
extraordinary. 
She 
was 
Britain’s 
first 
woman 
prime 
minister. 
The 
eleven 
and 
a 
half 
years 
(May 
1979 
to 
November 
1990) 
she 
spent 
in 
No. 
10 
Downing 
Street 
were 
com-
fortably 
longer 
than 
anyone 
else 
in 
the 
twentieth 
century. 
She 
was 
also 
prime 
minister 
for 
a 
longer 
continuous 
period 
than 
anyone 
for 
more 
than 
a 
century 
and 
a 
half 
– 
in 
fact 
since 
Lord 
Liverpool’s 
fifteen-year 
tenure 
was 
prematurely 
halted 
by 
a 
stroke 
in 
1827. 
She 
won 
three 
successive 
general 
elections, 
the 
last 
two 
with 
landslide 
majorities. 
No 
other 
party 
leader 
in 
the 
twentieth 
century 
won 
more 
than 
two 
successively 
and 
then 
with 
smaller 
majorities 
overall. 
Although 
it 
is 
still 
too 
early 
to 
be 
sure, 
the 
claims 
of 
Thatcher’s 
supporters 
that 
she 
changed 
the 
course 
of 
British 
history 
cannot 
be 
lightly 
dismissed 
as 
heroine-worship 
or 
as 
grandiose 
posturing. 
At 
the 
very 
least, 
she 
cast 
a 
long 
– 
opponents 
would 
say 
baleful 
– 
shadow 
across 
both 
political 
parties 
into 
the 
twenty-first 
century. 
Controversial 
and 
partisan 
as 
she 
was, 
she 
also 
changed 
the 
mindset 
of 
the 
nation.
Change 
as 
moral 
crusade 
was 
the 
leitmotif 
of 
her 
career. 
As 
early 
as 
1977, 
when 
asked 
by 
the 
right-wing 
journalist 
Patrick 
Cosgrave, 
then 
one 
of 
her 
special 
advisers, 
what 
she 
had 
changed, 
she 
replied, 
simply, 
‘Everything’.
1
When 
she 
was 
preparing 
her 
first 
Queen’s 
Speech 
in 
1979, 
a 
speech 
that 
many 
of 
her 
detractors 
say 
she 
would 
like 
to 
have 
delivered 
in 
person, 
it 
was 
uppermost 
in 
her 
thinking: 
‘If 
the 
opportunity 
to 
set 
a 
radical 
new 
course 
is 
not 
taken’, 
she 
wrote 
in 
her 
Memoirs, 
‘it 
will 
almost 
certainly 
never 
recur 
. 
. 
. 
I 
was 
determined 
to 
send 
out 
a 
clear 
signal 
of 
change’.
2
Certainly, 
she 
shook 
the 
country 
up. 
Certainly, 
too, 
she 
exercised 
the 
most 
profound 
effect 
on 
the 
structure 
and 
social 
composition 
of 
the 
Conservative 
Party, 
which 
she 
led 
for 
nearly 
sixteen 
years, 
from 
February 

Table of contents

  1. Thatcher and Thatcherism- Front Cover
  2. Thatcher and Thatcherism
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface to the fourth edition
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Chronology
  11. Chapter 1: The 1970s: explanations and origins
  12. Chapter 2: Election and depression, 1979–81
  13. Chapter 3: Thatcher triumphant, 1982–88
  14. Chapter 4: Thatcherism and the Conservative Party
  15. Chapter 5: The attack on the government ethic
  16. Chapter 6: The attack on the professional ethic
  17. Chapter 7: Thatcher abroad I: Europe, East and West
  18. Chapter 8: Thatcher abroad II: defence and the Americas
  19. Chapter 9: Thatcher abroad III: the global statesman
  20. Chapter 10: The fall: the significance of the Westland affair
  21. Chapter 11: The Thatcher legacy I: the Major years 1990–97
  22. Chapter 12: The Thatcher legacy II: the New Labour experiment
  23. Chapter 13: Interpretations
  24. Chapter 14: Conclusion
  25. Guide to further reading
  26. Index
Citation styles for Thatcher and Thatcherism

APA 6 Citation

Evans, E. (2018). Thatcher and Thatcherism (4th ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1323704/thatcher-and-thatcherism-pdf (Original work published 2018)

Chicago Citation

Evans, Eric. (2018) 2018. Thatcher and Thatcherism. 4th ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1323704/thatcher-and-thatcherism-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Evans, E. (2018) Thatcher and Thatcherism. 4th edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1323704/thatcher-and-thatcherism-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

Evans, Eric. Thatcher and Thatcherism. 4th ed. Taylor and Francis, 2018. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.