No Such Thing as Society by Andy McSmith - 9781849019798

Name: No Such Thing as Society by Andy McSmith - 9781849019798
Brand: Little, Brown Book Group

Little, Brown Book Group

No Such Thing as SocietyA History of Britain in the 1980s\nAuthor(s): Andy McSmith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Constable\nISBN-13: 9781849019798, 978-1849019798\nSynopsis\nThe 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial, like the revolution in fashion and music that enlivened the 1960s; nor were they quite as unsettling and joyless as the troubles of the 1970s. And yet they were irreversible. By the end of the decade, society as a whole was wealthier, money was easier to borrow, there was less social upheaval, less uncertainty about the future. \n\nPerhaps the greatest transformation of the decade was that by 1990, the British lived in a new ideological universe where the defining conflict of the twentieth century, between capitalism and socialism, was over. Thatcherism took the politics out .