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Attlee : a life in politics /

Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britain's greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister. Yet somehow Attlee the man remains elusive and little known. How did such a moderate, m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America and Canada distributed exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Growing Up in Victorian England, 1883-1901; Chapter 2. From Oxford to the East End, 1901-14; Chapter 3. The First World War, 1914-18; Chapter 4. The Political Apprenticeship, 1918-22; Chapter 5. A New Member of Parliament, 1922-24; Chapter 6. Opposition and Indian Affairs, 1924-30; Chapter 7. In Government, 1930-31; Chapter 8. Back in Opposition, 1931-35; Chapter 9. Labour Leadership, 1935-39; Chapter 10. From Opposition to Government, 1939-42.