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Title:

Moments of modernity : reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964 / [edited by] Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, Chris Waters.

Publisher:

Distributed in the USA by New York University Press,
Distributed in the USA by New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--1945-
Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-
Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-

Other Authors:

Conekin, Becky.
Mort, Frank.
Waters, Chris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-281) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Becky Conekin, Frank Mort and Chris Waters -- Jazz at the spirella : coming of age in Coventry in the 1950s / Peter Bailey -- State-sponsored autobiography / Carolyn Steedman -- The commercial domain : advertising and the cultural management of demand / Frank Mort -- Towards a modern labour market? State policy and the transformation of employment / Noel Whiteside -- Limits of Americanisation : the United States productivity gospel in Britain / Nick Tiratsoo -- Population politics in post-war British culture / Pat Thane -- Disorders of the mind, disorders of the body social : Peter Wildeblood and the making of the modern homosexual / Chris Waters -- The Labour Party : modernisation and the politics of restraint / Martin Francis -- 'New conservatism'? The Industrial Charter, modernity and the reconstruction of British conservatism after the war / Harriet Jones -- Reveries of race : the closing of the imperial moment / Bill Schwartz -- New towns for old : the fate of the town centre / Peter Mandler -- 'Here is the modern world itself' : the Festival of Britain's representations of the future / Becky Conekin.

ISBN:

9781854891051 (pbk.)
1854891057 (pbk.)
9781854891044
1854891049

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41503875

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)