20th Century Britain (eBook, ePUB)

Economic, Cultural and Social Change
Redaktion: Robertson, Nicole; Taylor, Avram; Singleton, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000828375
• Artikelnr.: 66884666

Autorenporträt

Nicole Robertson is Associate Professor in Modern British History at Sheffield Hallam University. She has published widely on women and the clerical sector, the co-operative movement, consumerism, and the Labour Party. Her current research project explores gender, activism and identity among white-collar workers. John Singleton is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Business History at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published widely on British business history, economic policy in New Zealand, the development of central banking and the history of disasters and industrial safety. Avram Taylor is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University. His research reflects his interest in the relationship between class, gender and ethnicity. His thesis was published as Working Class Credit and Community since 1918 (2002.) He has subsequently published a number of articles on Jews in Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

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