Introduction: Explanations and origins -- Election and depression, 1979-81 -- Thatcher triumphant, 1982-88 -- Thatcherism and the conservative party -- The attack on the government ethic -- The attack on the professional ethic -- Thatcher abroad I: Europe, East and West -- Thatcher abroad II: Defence and the Americas -- Thatcher abroad III: Decolonization and Eastern Europe -- The fall -- The Thatcher legacy I: The major years 1990-97 -- The Thatcher legacy II: The new labour experiment -- Interpretations.
