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Moments of modernity : reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964
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- Creator
- [edited by] Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, Chris Waters
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Rivers Oram Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by New York University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781854891044, 1854891049, 9781854891051, 1854891057
- OCLC
- ocm41503875
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-281) and index.
- 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