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Britain after empire
constructing a post-war political-cultural project
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'.
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establishment designs, high arts and popular culture in Britain
pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023834_1the war, wartime and "continuing Britain"
pp.19-39
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023834_2patrician reformers, subaltern demands and the ideal of welfare
pp.40-61
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023834_3the Cold War
pp.62-81
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023834_4quickening change in the 1950s and early 1960s
pp.97-111
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023834_6new technologies and the internet
pp.177-195
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023834_10contemporary political culture unpacked
pp.196-217
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023834_11Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2014
Pages: 278
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-43834-1
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-02383-4
Full citation:
Preston P. W. (2014) Britain after empire: constructing a post-war political-cultural project. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.