Michael Shanks – författare

First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 1960, both Conservative and Labour governments carried out a series of experiments to plan the country’s affairs better and involve industry and trade unions in vital policy decisions. Despite limited domestic success, these experiments attracted significant international interest, establishing planning as a continuing feature of British national life.

Why did planning persist despite apparent failures? What went wrong with previous attempts, and what constitutional changes would result from planning instruments acquiring extra standing? Michael Shanks, without political affiliations but close to policymaking since 1960 as journalist, civil servant, industrialist, and director-general in the Common Market Commission, brings unique qualifications to this analysis.

His study for PEP assesses the roles of bodies such as the NEDC, TUC, CBI and IMF, establishing reasons for failure and recipes for future success. This objective and informed analysis poses challenging questions not only for Great Britain’s future but for the western world as a whole during this critical period of economic uncertainty.

First published in 1977, Planning and Politics examines Britain’s economic planning experiments during a period when the country’s seemingly intractable economic problems had become one of the major weaknesses of the western world. Since 1960, both Conservative and Labour governments carried out a series of experiments to plan the country’s affairs better and involve industry and trade unions in vital policy decisions. Despite limited domestic success, these experiments attracted significant international interest, establishing planning as a continuing feature of British national life.

Why did planning persist despite apparent failures? What went wrong with previous attempts, and what constitutional changes would result from planning instruments acquiring extra standing? Michael Shanks, without political affiliations but close to policymaking since 1960 as journalist, civil servant, industrialist, and director-general in the Common Market Commission, brings unique qualifications to this analysis.

His study for PEP assesses the roles of bodies such as the NEDC, TUC, CBI and IMF, establishing reasons for failure and recipes for future success. This objective and informed analysis poses challenging questions not only for Great Britain’s future but for the western world as a whole during this critical period of economic uncertainty.

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

Archaeologists do not discover the past but take the fragmentary remains which they recover and make something of them. Archaeology is a process of detection and supposition; this is what makes it so fascinating. However, the interpretations of archaeologists differ and change over time. They depend upon the amount of evidence available, the ideas and preconceptions of the archaeologist and their interests and aims.Michael Shanks''s enlivening work is a guide to the discipline of classical archaeology and its objects. It assesses archaeology as a means of reconstructing ancient Greek society using the latest approaches of social archaeology. In addition, The Classical Archaeology of Greece outlines the history of the discipline and discusses why Classical Greece continues to fascinate us and why it has had such an impact on European civilization and identity.

Archaeologists do not discover the past but take the fragmentary remains which they recover and make something of them. Archaeology is a process of detection and supposition; this is what makes it so fascinating. However, the interpretations of archaeologists differ and change over time. They depend upon the amount of evidence available, the ideas and preconceptions of the archaeologist and their interests and aims.Michael Shanks''s enlivening work is a guide to the discipline of classical archaeology and its objects. It assesses archaeology as a means of reconstructing ancient Greek society using the latest approaches of social archaeology. In addition, The Classical Archaeology of Greece outlines the history of the discipline and discusses why Classical Greece continues to fascinate us and why it has had such an impact on European civilization and identity.

In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.

In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.

Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come to fascinate archaeologists over the last forty years or so, those that concern major events in human history such as the origins of agriculture and the state, and questions about the way archaeologists go about their work. Many of the conversations highlight quite intensely held personal insight into what motivates us to pursue archaeology; some may even be termed outrageous in the light they shed on the way archaeological institutions operate – excavation teams, professional associations, university departments.Archaeology in the Making is a unique document detailing the history of archaeology in second half of the 20th century to the present day through the words of some of its key proponents. It will be invaluable for anybody who wants to understand the theory and practice of this ever developing discipline.

Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come to fascinate archaeologists over the last forty years or so, those that concern major events in human history such as the origins of agriculture and the state, and questions about the way archaeologists go about their work. Many of the conversations highlight quite intensely held personal insight into what motivates us to pursue archaeology; some may even be termed outrageous in the light they shed on the way archaeological institutions operate – excavation teams, professional associations, university departments.Archaeology in the Making is a unique document detailing the history of archaeology in second half of the 20th century to the present day through the words of some of its key proponents. It will be invaluable for anybody who wants to understand the theory and practice of this ever developing discipline.