Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Untitled; 1 Introduction: The politics of state expansion in twentieth-century Britain; 2 The Victorian inheritance; 3 Labour and the demand for state expansion, 1890-1918; 4 War and the creation of the modern tax state; 5 The state in war and reconstruction; 6 The resilience of budgetary orthodoxy; 7 Labour and the state between the wars; 8 The "people's war" and the transformation of the state; 9 Towards the "Liberal-Socialist" state, 1945-51; 10 Centring the postwar settlement; 11 Epilogue: Decline to Thatcher; Notes
Summary
The expansion of the British state was neither automatic nor accidental, Cronin argues. He focusses on the recurring struggles over its role in society and on the later retreat from Keynesian principles
