Modernity Britain, 1957-62
By: David Kynaston
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Series: Tales of a new Jerusalem
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 872
ISBN-13: 9781620408094
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Nineteen fifties; Social conditions; Nineteen sixties; History
Other titles: Modernity Britain, 1957-1962
Description: "The late 1950s and early 1960s was a period in its own right--neither the stultifying early to midfifties nor the liberating mid- to late-sixties--and an action-packed, dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain started to take shape. These were the 'never had it so good' years, in which mass affluence began to change, fundamentally, the tastes and even the character of the working class; when films like Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and TV soaps like Coronation Street and Z Cars at last brought that class to the center of the national frame; when Britain gave up its empire; when economic decline relative to France and Germany became the staple of political discourse; when 'youth' emerged as a fully fledged cultural force; when the Notting Hill riots made race and immigration an inescapable reality; when a new breed of meritocrats came through; and when the Lady Chatterley trial, followed by the Profumo scandal, at last signaled the end of Victorian morality."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "'Opening the Box' copyright © 2013 by David Kynaston ; 'A Shake of the Dice' copyright © 2014 by David Kynaston"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [760]-820) and index.
Table of contents: title: Opening the box; title: A shake of the dice.