Seeking a role : the United Kingdom, 1951-1970 /

An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950s and 60s, 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-st...

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Main Author: Harrison, Brian, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2009
Series:New Oxford history of England.
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Summary:An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950s and 60s, 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 658 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-600) and index.
ISBN:0191542261
9780191542268
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.