20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9780367426569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 400 str.

Robertson, Nicole

Opis

20th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture. Written by leading academics, it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding in established approaches and topics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Twentieth-Century Britain  Part I: Britain since 1900  2. The British Political System  3. The British Economy  4. Inequality, Living Standards, and Welfare Provision  5. Britain's Changing Position in the International Economy  6. Managing the Economy, Managing the People  7. Work, the Labour Market and Trade Unions  8. Leisure, Consumption and Consumerism  9. The Environment and Environmental Policy  10. Big Business and Management in Britain  11. Empire and Decolonisation  12. Ethnicity, Identity and Multiculturalism  13 Women and Inequalities  14. Disability and Disabled People  15. Social Mobility  16. Gender and Sexuality  17. Healthcare, Health and Wellbeing  Part II: Britain in Focus  18. Britain at War 1914-1918 and 1939-45  19. The Impact of the Interwar Depression on the Working Class  20. Civil Society, Voluntary Action and Citizenship, c. 1918 -1960s  21. Heterosexual Sexuality in Britain, 1918-1972  22. Britain and Europe since 1945  23. The 1960s and the Cultural Revolution  24. Resisting Racism in 1970s and 1980s Britain: the Experience of Young South Asians