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[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]

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[Reading, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]

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ISBN10: 000710264X, ISBN13: 9780007102648, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London] Softcover An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State now fully revised to cover Blairs first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. And the insidious Giant Idleness, which destroys wealth and corrupts men. These were evils to be vanquished by the postwar reconstruction of Britain. Timmins book recaptures brilliantly the high hopes of the period in which the Welfare State began to be created, and conveys the cranky zeal of its inventor, William Beveridge. The onslaught on the five Giants was the work of five gargantuan programmes that made up the core of Beveridges Welfare State. These were social security, health, education, housing and a policy of full employment. It is notoriously difficult to write about such subjects and keep the reader reading, but Timmins performs wonders of narrative clarity, anecdote and human detail in a book that finds its chosen level somewhere between Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and 1066 and All ThatThere is something very moving about his rhetoric of transformation and The Five Giants will stir up strong emotions. It is impossible not to respond in personal terms to a book that is a part of so many of our histories, woven into the day-to-day texture of our ...

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HarperCollins, Date: 2001. Paperback. New. 720 pages. 7.95x5.00x1.85 inches. 2001. HarperCollins ISBN 000710264X 9780007102648 [GB]

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ISBN10: 000710264X, ISBN13: 9780007102648, [publisher: Jul 2001] Softcover Neuware - 'Winner of the Longman/' History Today' prize and the 'Yorkshire Post' Prize'
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2001]
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HarperCollins, Date: 2001. Paperback. New. 720 pages. 7.95x5.00x1.85 inches. 2001. HarperCollins ISBN 000710264X 9780007102648 [GB]

ISBN10: 000710264X, ISBN13: 9780007102648, [publisher: HarperCollins] Softcover 720 pages. 7.95x5.00x1.85 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]