Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Becky E. Conekin ,  Frank Mort ,  Chris Waters (Associate Professor of History, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA)
Publisher:   Rivers Oram Press
Imprint:   Rivers Oram Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781854891051

ISBN 10:   1854891057
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 January 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Part 1 Autobiography and narratives of the modern self: jazz at the Spirella - coming of age in 1950s Coventry, Peter Bailey. Part 2 A modernised economy?: strategies of desire - post-war advertising, and the culture of demand, Frank Mort; The limits of Fordism - the American productivity gospel in Britain 1945-64 , Nick Tiratsoo. Part 3 Languages of politics: towards a modern labour market? - state policy and the transformation of employment in Britain, Noel Whiteside; the cultural effects of population change, Pat Thane; Peter Wildeblood and the making of the modern homosexual, Chris Waters; state-sponsored autobiography, Carolyn Steedman; modernisation and the politics of restraint - the Labour Party 1945-64, Martin Francis; the language of post-war Conservatism - conservative politics and modernisation after the Second World War, Harriet Jones. Part 4 Britain in the wider world: remembering Smuts, Bill Schwarz. Part 5 Contested modernity - art, architecture and design: new towns for old - the fate of the English town centre, Peter Mandler; A new language or Totally frivolous ? - contested modernism in the Festival of Britain, Becky Conekin.

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions