ISBN:
9781137023827
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 278 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] Ebrary Online-Ressource Ebrary online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Preston, P. W., 1949 - Britain after empire
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Preston, P. W., 1949 - Britain after Empire
DDC:
941.085
Keywords:
Political culture History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Elite (Social sciences) History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Social classes History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Welfare state Great Britain
;
Political science
;
Great Britain Politics and government
;
20th century
;
Great Britain Social life and customs
;
20th century
;
Great Britain Social conditions
;
20th century
;
Great Britain Economic conditions
;
20th century
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Großbritannien
;
Entkolonialisierung
;
Elite
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Großbritannien
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Volkskultur
;
Elite
;
Geschichte 1950-1970
Abstract:
Through compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 After the Empire: Establishment Designs, High Arts and Popular Culture in Britain -- 2 Foundation Myths: The War, Wartime and 'Continuing Britain' -- 3 Grand Designs: Patrician Reformers, Subaltern Demands and the Ideal of Welfare -- 4 Making Enemies: The Cold War -- 5 Voices of Complaint, Voices of Assertion -- 6 Patrician Retreat: Quickening Change in the 1950s and Early 1960s -- 7 Affluence Attained, Affluence Doubted -- 8 Corporate World, Media and Politics -- 9 Amongst the Bullshit Industries -- 10 Familiar Utopias: New Technologies and the Internet -- 11 Continuing Britain: Contemporary Political Culture Unpacked -- Notes -- Bibliography (Readings/Viewings) -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 After the Empire: Establishment Designs, High Arts and Popular Culture in Britain; 2 Foundation Myths: The War, Wartime and 'Continuing Britain'; 3 Grand Designs: Patrician Reformers, Subaltern Demands and the Ideal of Welfare; 4 Making Enemies: The Cold War; 5 Voices of Complaint, Voices of Assertion; 6 Patrician Retreat: Quickening Change in the 1950s and Early 1960s; 7 Affluence Attained, Affluence Doubted; 8 Corporate World, Media and Politics; 9 Amongst the Bullshit Industries; 10 Familiar Utopias: New Technologies and the Internet
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Continuing Britain: Contemporary Political Culture UnpackedNotes; Bibliography (Readings/Viewings); Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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