When Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979 she promised to bring harmony where once there had been discord. But Britain entered the 1980s bitterly divided over its future. At stake were the souls of the great population boom of the 1960s. Would they buy into the free-market, patriotic agenda of Thatcherism? Or the anti-racist, anti-sexist liberalism of the new left? From the miners' strike, the Falklands War and the spectre of AIDS, to Yes, Minister, championship snooker and Boy George, Rejoice! Rejoice! steps back in time to relive the decade when the Iron Lady sought to remake Britain. What it discovers is a thoroughly foreign country.
Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. With the two main political parties as far apart as at any time since the 1930s, the period was riven by violent confrontation, beginning with the explosion of rioting that rocked England's cities in 1981 and again in 1985; a year-long fight with the National Union of Mineworkers, and then with print workers in Wapping. There was the war to retake the Falkland Islands and the re-escalation of the troubles in Northern Ireland, which began with hunger strikes and peaked with the attempt to assassinate the entire Cabinet in the Brighton bombing.
SciFi Now Special – 80s Sci-Fi Almanac Vol.1
The eighties was a seminal decade. From mini skirts to mullets, these years spawned some inspirational styles, many of which are still going strong today. In this book we take you on a journey through the movies that defined a generation. From Back to the Future and Tron to Empire Strikes Back and E.T., enjoy the films that made this one of the greatest decades of cinema. Featuring: 15 greatest big screen bad-asses of the 1980s - The biggest of the 80s SciFi bad-asses Indiana Jones - Follow the adventures of the heroic archeologist Star Wars - Take a look into episode V and VI Ghostbusters - We ain't afraid of no ghosts!
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The Monstrosity of Christ
If the theological was marginalized in the age of Western secular modernity, it has now returned with a vengeance. Theology is reconfi guring the very makeup of the humanities in general, with disciplines like philosophy, political science, literature, history, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, in particular, feeling the impact of this return. There are many ways of accounting for this surprising development but one stands out, namely, the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the subsequent global expansion of capitalism under the fl ag of the American Global Empire.
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