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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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After the Empire -- Foundation Myths -- Grand Designs -- Making Enemies -- Voices of Complaint -- Patrician Retreat -- Affluence Attained -- Corporate World -- Bullshit Industries -- Familiar Utopias -- Continuing Britain. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Tracking the intermingled intellectual and moral response of elites and masses to the loss of empire in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how the elite in Britain sought to fashion a new identity for itself, how this was promulgated amongst the wider population and how ordinary people responded. These responses can be uncovered in elite designs including policies, plans, declarations; high art such as novels, theatre, fine arts and art-house films as well as through the medium of popular culture like radio, film, television, newspapers and magazines. These layers of meanings can be found in the slow development of the public sphere, as events produced reactions that laid down ideas that run into the present. The collective upshot has been the creation of a shifting, contested and finally unsustainable idea of what it is to be 'British'. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
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Great Britain. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
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Nationalism -- Great Britain.
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Nationalism. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 1945-
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Intellectual life. |
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Great Britain.
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British & Irish history -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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Cultural studies -- c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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History. |
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European history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999. |
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Cultural studies -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999. |
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Colonialism & imperialism -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999. |
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Social, group or collective psychology -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999. |
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Popular culture -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1945 |
| Other Form: |
Printed edition: 9781349438341 |
| ISBN |
9781137023834 (electronic book) |
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113702383X (electronic book) |
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1306409020 |
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9781306409025 |
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9781137023827 |
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1137023821 |
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9781349438341 |
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1349438340 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137023834 |
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