Modernity britain

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This edition collects both volumes of Modernity Britain for the first time Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain 'Triumphant ... A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals' Financial Times 'This superb history captures the birth pangs of modern Britain ... It is a part of Kynaston’s huge achievement that such moments of insight and pleasure should accompany what has become a monumental history of our recent past' The Times ____________________ David Kynaston’s history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain’s more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 1957–62 sees the coming of a new Zeitgeist as Kynaston gets up close to a turbulent era in which the speed of social change accelerated. The late 1950s to early 1960s was an action-packed, often dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain began to take shape. These were the ‘never had it so good’ years, when the Carry On film series got going, and films like Room at the Top and the first soaps like Coronation Street and Z Cars brought the working class to the centre of the national frame; when CND galvanised the progressive middle class; when ‘youth’ emerged as a cultural force; when the Notting Hill riots made race and immigration an inescapable reality; and when ‘meritocracy’ became the buzz word of the day. In this period, the traditional norms of morality were perceived as under serious threat ( Lady Chatterley’s Lover freely on sale after the famous case), and traditional working-class culture was changing (wakes weeks in decline, the end of the maximum wage for footballers). The greatest change, though, concerned urban redevelopment: city centres were being yanked into the age of the motor car, slum clearance was intensified, and the skyline became studded with brutalist high-rise blocks. Some of this transformation was necessary, but too much would destroy communities and leave a harsh, fateful legacy. This profoundly important story of the transformation of Britain as it arrived at the brink of a new world is brilliantly told through diaries, letters newspapers and a rich haul of other sources and published in one magnificent paperback volume for the first time.

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Austerity Britain 1945 1951

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The groundbreaking series that will tell the story of britain from ve day in 1945 to the coming of margaret thatcher in 1979 as never before this edition collects both volumes of austerity britain together for the first time this is a classic buy at least three copies one for yourself and two Uiterlijk 29 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

A Northern Wind

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A waterstones times telegraph new statesman spectator and bbc history magazine book of the year the early sixties in britain told as only david kynaston the most entertaining historian alive spectator can running from 1962 to 1965 a northern wind is the anticipated new volume in the landma Uiterlijk 29 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

City of London

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David kynaston s ground breaking history of the city of london published in four volumes between 1994 and 2001 is a modern classic skilfully edited into a single volume by david milner it tells a story as dramatic as any novel while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 april 2015

Aantal pagina's: 880

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: David Kynaston

Tweede Auteur: David Kynaston

Hoofduitgeverij: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Product breedte: 150 mm

Product hoogte: 22 mm

Product lengte: 210 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 129 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 198 mm

Verpakking lengte: 198 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 0.66 kg

EAN: 9781408844380

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