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Titre : Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Chris Renwick, Auteur Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd Année de publication : 2018 Importance : 328 p. Format : 13x22 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-198035-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in the history of the world ... the welfare state deserves books this good' Stuart Maconie, New Statesman , Books of the Year 'A brilliant book, full of little revelations' Jon Cruddas, Prospect 'Carefully argued, deftly balanced and wittily written, with countless lovely details' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A landmark book from a remarkable new historian, on a subject that has never been more important - or imperilled Today, everybody seems to agree that something has gone badly wrong with the British welfare state. In the midst of economic crisis, politicians and commentators talk about benefits as a lifestyle choice, and of 'skivers' living off hard-working 'strivers' as they debate what a welfare state fit for the twenty-first century might look like. This major new history tells the story of one the greatest transformations in British intellectual, social and political life: the creation of the welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse, where you had to be destitute to receive help, to a moment just after the Second World War, when government embraced responsibilities for people's housing, education, health and family life, a commitment that was unimaginable just a century earlier. Though these changes were driven by developments in different and sometimes unexpected currents in British life, they were linked by one over-arching idea: that through rational and purposeful intervention, government can remake society. It was an idea that, during the early twentieth century, came to inspire people across the political spectrum. In exploring this extraordinary transformation, Bread for All explores and challenges our assumptions about what the welfare state was originally for, and the kinds of people who were involved in creating it. In doing so, it asks what the idea continues to mean for us today. En ligne : https://www.penguin.co.uk/content/dam/prh/books/279/279585/9780141980355.jpg.tra [...] Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State [texte imprimé] / Chris Renwick, Auteur . - Penguin Books Ltd, 2018 . - 328 p. ; 13x22 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-14-198035-5
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Résumé : SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in the history of the world ... the welfare state deserves books this good' Stuart Maconie, New Statesman , Books of the Year 'A brilliant book, full of little revelations' Jon Cruddas, Prospect 'Carefully argued, deftly balanced and wittily written, with countless lovely details' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A landmark book from a remarkable new historian, on a subject that has never been more important - or imperilled Today, everybody seems to agree that something has gone badly wrong with the British welfare state. In the midst of economic crisis, politicians and commentators talk about benefits as a lifestyle choice, and of 'skivers' living off hard-working 'strivers' as they debate what a welfare state fit for the twenty-first century might look like. This major new history tells the story of one the greatest transformations in British intellectual, social and political life: the creation of the welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse, where you had to be destitute to receive help, to a moment just after the Second World War, when government embraced responsibilities for people's housing, education, health and family life, a commitment that was unimaginable just a century earlier. Though these changes were driven by developments in different and sometimes unexpected currents in British life, they were linked by one over-arching idea: that through rational and purposeful intervention, government can remake society. It was an idea that, during the early twentieth century, came to inspire people across the political spectrum. In exploring this extraordinary transformation, Bread for All explores and challenges our assumptions about what the welfare state was originally for, and the kinds of people who were involved in creating it. In doing so, it asks what the idea continues to mean for us today. En ligne : https://www.penguin.co.uk/content/dam/prh/books/279/279585/9780141980355.jpg.tra [...] Réservation
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Titre : The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mark Twain, Auteur Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd Année de publication : 2012 Importance : 328 p. Format : 13x20 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-119900-9 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'. En ligne : https://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/lrg/9780/1411/978014119 [...] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [texte imprimé] / Mark Twain, Auteur . - Penguin Books Ltd, 2012 . - 328 p. ; 13x20 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-14-119900-9
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Résumé : The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'. En ligne : https://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/lrg/9780/1411/978014119 [...] Réservation
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Titre : The Cold War : A World History Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Odd Arne Westad, Auteur Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 712 p. Format : 13x20 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-197991-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War.
For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped life. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely.
Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure.En ligne : https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ON0ww8+DL._SX324_BO1,204,203, [...] The Cold War : A World History [texte imprimé] / Odd Arne Westad, Auteur . - Penguin Books Ltd, 2017 . - 712 p. ; 13x20 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-14-197991-5
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Résumé : As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War.
For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped life. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely.
Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure.En ligne : https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ON0ww8+DL._SX324_BO1,204,203, [...] Réservation
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Titre : The Great Gatsby Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Scott Fitzgerald, F., Auteur Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd Année de publication : 2000 Importance : 180 p. Format : 13x20 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-118263-6 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon, this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for - in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality...En ligne : https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780141182636-it.jpg The Great Gatsby [texte imprimé] / Scott Fitzgerald, F., Auteur . - Penguin Books Ltd, 2000 . - 180 p. ; 13x20 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-14-118263-6
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Résumé : Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon, this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for - in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality...En ligne : https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780141182636-it.jpg Réservation
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Titre : The Rise and Fall of the British Nation Paperback : A Twentieth-Century History Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : David Edgerton, Auteur Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd Année de publication : 2019 Importance : 682 p. Format : 13x18cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-14-197597-9 Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé :
Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This nation was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ways. David Edgerton's fascinating perspective produces refreshed understanding of everything from the nature of British politics to the performance of British industry.
Packed with surprising examples and arguments, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation gives us a grown-up, unsentimental history, one which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future.
En ligne : https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41hvLdkHrOL._SX324_BO1,204,203, [...] The Rise and Fall of the British Nation Paperback : A Twentieth-Century History [texte imprimé] / David Edgerton, Auteur . - Penguin Books Ltd, 2019 . - 682 p. ; 13x18cm.
ISBN : 978-0-14-197597-9
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Résumé :
Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This nation was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ways. David Edgerton's fascinating perspective produces refreshed understanding of everything from the nature of British politics to the performance of British industry.
Packed with surprising examples and arguments, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation gives us a grown-up, unsentimental history, one which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future.
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