Thatcher and Thatcherism

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