TY - BOOK AU - Childs,David TI - Britain since 1945: a political history SN - 9780415519526 U1 - 941.085 PY - 1979/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Summer victories -- 2. Achievement and austerity under Attlee, 1945-51 -- 3. Colonial retreat and cold war -- 4. Churchill and Eden, 1951-57 -- 5. Macmillan and the affluent society, 1957-64 -- 6. Wilson's attempts at reform, 1964-70 -- 7. The unexpected prime minister: Edward Heath, 1970-74 -- 8. Labour's minority government, 1974-79 -- 9. Thatcher's revolution, 1979-83 -- 10. Thatcher: triumph and fall, 1983-90 -- 11. In major's classless society, 1990-96 -- 12. Blair's first term, 1997-2001 -- 13. Blair's governments, 2001-05 -- 14. Blair's third term -- 15. From brown to cameron -- 16.Britain's coalition experiment, 2010 ER -