No Turning Back: The Peaceful Revolutions of Post-War Britain
de Addison, Paul
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cloth, xiii, 449 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Since the Second World War, Britain has been transformed by a series of peaceful revolutions---the rise of multiculturalism, the permissive society, and the service-based consumer economy, among many others. These, Paul Addison argues, have been more powerful agents of change than the Battle of the Somme or the Blitz ever were." "No Turning Back looks at the changing face of Britain in this period of rapid transformation, highlighting just how much has been gained---but not forgetting that much, too, has been lost." "Historian Paul Addison was born in the 1940s. In No Turning Back, he surveys the vast changes in the character of British society that he has observed in the period since. A series of peaceful revolutions has transformed the country; the comparative peace and growing prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century, he contends, have been more powerful agents of change than the Battle of the Somme or the Blitz." "The Second World War led to the welfare state but in some ways reinforced a conservative way of life. The changes unleashed by the Sixties and Seventies were more radical. Much of the sexual morality preached, if not practised, for centuries has been dismantled with the creation of a p`ermissive society'. The employment and career chances of women have radically improved. A white nation has been transformed into a multiracial one. An economy founded upon manufacturing under the watchful eye of the g`entlemen in Whitehall' has morphed into a free market system, heavily dependent on finance, services, and housing; a predominantly working class society has evolved into a predominantly middle class one. And the United Kingdom, which once looked as solid as the rock of Gibraltar, now looks increasingly fragile, as Wales and especially Scotland have started to go their separate ways.".- Publisher. CONTENTS: The aftermath of war 1945-1957. The gentleman in Whitehall; Fair shares for all; Victorian values; When British was best; The quest for modernity 1957-1974. Managing the new Britain; Great expectations; The Liberal hour; National identities; Transformations 1974-1997. Mrs Thatcher's revolution; Haves and have-nots; The permissive age; Uncharted waters; The long view.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Título
- No Turning Back: The Peaceful Revolutions of Post-War Britain
- Autor
- Addison, Paul
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- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0192192671
- ISBN 13
- 9780192192677
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Oxford
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010
- Tamaño
- 8vo
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- COLLECTIBLE
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