by Robert Skidelsky · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099572398
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«Britain Since 1900: A Success Story?» is Robert Skidelsky's historical essay, published by Vintage in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Skidelsky analyses the British twentieth century and the question of whether it was a success: loss of empire, two world wars, birth of the welfare state, economic crises and social change. He assesses not only power and wealth, but prosperity, quality of life and political and cultural values, with Churchill, Thatcher and Blair at the centre of the narrative.
Final volume of the Vintage History of Britain series. Published in 2014, it covers the history of the United Kingdom in the twentieth century from a political, economic and cultural perspective.
For readers interested in the history of the United Kingdom, the twentieth century and debates on the British political and social legacy.
Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, was a British economic historian, author and crossbench life peer in the House of Lords. He is best known for his award-winning three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, regarded as the definitive study of the economist's life and work. Educated at Jesus College, Oxford, he held academic posts in history and political economy at several universities and was Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Beyond academia, Skidelsky was influential in British public policy debates, serving as the founding chairman of the Social Market Foundation and writing extensively on economics, fiscal policy, and the political implications of technological change.
