Hugh Pemberton

PROFESSOR OF MODERN BRITISH HISTORY LAWRENCE. BLACK

Lawrence Black

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Plates -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction - The Uses (and Abuses) of Affluence -- 2 Affluence, Conservatism and Political Competition in Britain and the United States, 1945-1964 -- 3 Modernizing Britain's Welfare State: The Influence of Affluence, 1957-1964 -- 4 The Forgotten Revisionist: Douglas Jay and Britain's Transition to Affluence, 1951-1964 -- 5 Total Abstinence and a Good Filing-System? Anthony Crosland and the Affluent Society -- 6 The Impression of Affluence: Political Culture in the 1950s and 1960s -- 7 Affluence, Relative Decline and the Treasury -- 8 Economists and Economic Growth in Britain, c.1955-65 -- 9 The Polyester-Flannelled Philanthropists: The Birmingham Consumers' Group and Affluent Britain -- 10 Anticipating Affluence: Skill, Judgement and the Problems of Aesthetic Tutelage -- 11 'Selling Youth in the Age of Affluence': Marketing to Youth in Britain since 1959 -- 12 Losing the Peace: Germany, Japan, America and the Shaping of British National Identity in the Age of Affluence -- Bibliography -- Index

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Reader in Contemporary British History Hugh Pemberton, Dr

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