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1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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It is often claimed that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest'. True, the desire to escape outmoded social, moral and artistic conventions was illustrated in a rich, provocative cultural production, as well as through a number of radical social and political movements or reforms. However, as this collection argues, innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past. Ultimately the 'radicalism' of the Sixties in Britain is also visible in its conservatism, in the spectacular, novel ways in which the decade expressed and absorbed the new, yet preserved the old. Rather than pitting radical against conservative, the authors' interpretation of the Sixties may well gain by attempting to see how these two apparently antagonistic qualities in fact represent opposite sides of the same problem. |
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Foreword; Dominic Sandbrook -- Introduction; Trevor Harris and Monia O'Brien Castro -- 1. Sixties Britain: the Cultural Politics of Historiography; Mark Donnelly -- PART I: POLITICS -- 2. The 1960s: Days of Innocence; R.J. Morris -- 3. The Abortion Act 1967: a Fundamental Change?; Sylvie Pomïs-Mařchal and Matthew Leggett -- 4. Industrial Relations in the 1960s: the End of Voluntarism?; Alexis Chommeloux -- 5. The Radical Left and Popular Music in the 1960s; Jeremy Tranmer -- PART II: CULTURE -- 6. Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Friel's Freedom of the City; Martine Pelletier -- 7. Pulp Diction: Stereotypes in 1960s British Literature; Peter Vernon -- 8. Sketchy Counterculture; Judith Roof -- 9. Psychic Liberation in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Ben Winsworth -- 10. Preservation Society; Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski -- Conclusion; Trevor Harris and Monia O'Brien Castro. |
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| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1945- -- Historiography.
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Great Britain. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
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Historiography. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952-2022 -- Historiography.
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Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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20th century |
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Social & cultural history -- c 1960 to c 1970 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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British & Irish history -- c 1960 to c 1970 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- c 1960 to c 1970 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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History. |
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History. |
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Manners and customs -- Historiography. |
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Social & cultural history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 -- c 1960 to c 1969. |
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European history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 -- c 1960 to c 1969. |
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History. |
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Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Harris, Trevor A. Le V., editor.
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O'Brien Castro, Molly, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Printed edition: 9781349476824 |
| ISBN |
9781137374103 (electronic book) |
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1137374101 (electronic book) |
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9781349476824 |
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134947682X |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137374103 |
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