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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455384503321

Autore

Harrison Brian Howard

Titolo

Seeking a role [[electronic resource] ] : the United Kingdom, 1951-1970 / / Brian Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-19921-8

9786612199219

0-19-154226-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (681 p.)

Collana

New Oxford history of England

Disciplina

941.085/5

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century

Great Britain Social conditions 20th century

Great Britain Foreign relations 1945-1964

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [579]-600) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Plates; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. THE UNITED KINGDOM IN 1951; 2. THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD; 3. THE FACE OF THE COUNTRY; 4. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE; 5. FAMILY AND WELFARE; 6. INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE; 7. INTELLECT AND CULTURE; 8. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; 9.'THE SIXTIES'; 10. RETROSPECT; Chronology; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950's and 60's, covering everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, cultural life to political structures. - ;In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and with Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be a great power, whose welfare state exemplified compromise betwe