Moments of modernity : reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964 /
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London ; New York :
Rivers Oram Press ;
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Becky Conekin, Frank Mort and Chris Waters
- Jazz at the spirella : coming of age in Coventry in the 1950s / Peter Bailey
- State-sponsored autobiography / Carolyn Steedman
- The commercial domain : advertising and the cultural management of demand / Frank Mort
- Towards a modern labour market? State policy and the transformation of employment / Noel Whiteside
- Limits of Americanisation : the United States productivity gospel in Britain / Nick Tiratsoo
- Population politics in post-war British culture / Pat Thane
- Disorders of the mind, disorders of the body social : Peter Wildeblood and the making of the modern homosexual / Chris Waters
- The Labour Party : modernisation and the politics of restraint / Martin Francis
- 'New conservatism'? The Industrial Charter, modernity and the reconstruction of British conservatism after the war / Harriet Jones
- Reveries of race : the closing of the imperial moment / Bill Schwartz
- New towns for old : the fate of the town centre / Peter Mandler
- 'Here is the modern world itself' : the Festival of Britain's representations of the future / Becky Conekin.