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This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The benighted decade? Reassessing the seventies
Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton
2. The politics of economic decline in the 1970s
James Alt
3. The politics of declinism
Jim Tomlinson
4. A time for confession
Samuel Brittan
5. Brittan on Britain: decline, declinism and the ‘traumas of the 1970s’
Roger Middleton
6. Alternative European and economic strategies
Stuart Holland
7. The challenge of Stuart Holland: the Labour Party’s economic strategy during the 1970s
Mark Wickham-Jones
8. Jam today: feminist impacts and transformations in the 1970s
Lynne Segal
9. Women and the 1970s. Towards liberation?
Pat Thane
10. Stanley Cohen’s Folk Devils and Moral Panics revisited
Bill Osgerby
11. Penguin Books in the long-1970s: a company not a sacred institution
Peter Mayer
12. Penguin Books and the ‘market place for ideas’
Dean Blackburn
13. Afterword: The future of the 1970s
Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton

Reassessing 1970s Britain

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 1/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719088148
      978-0719088148
      ISBN-10 0719088143

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction: The benighted decade? Reassessing the seventies
      Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton
      2. The politics of economic decline in the 1970s
      James Alt
      3. The politics of declinism
      Jim Tomlinson
      4. A time for confession
      Samuel Brittan
      5. Brittan on Britain: decline, declinism and the ‘traumas of the 1970s’
      Roger Middleton
      6. Alternative European and economic strategies
      Stuart Holland
      7. The challenge of Stuart Holland: the Labour Party’s economic strategy during the 1970s
      Mark Wickham-Jones
      8. Jam today: feminist impacts and transformations in the 1970s
      Lynne Segal
      9. Women and the 1970s. Towards liberation?
      Pat Thane
      10. Stanley Cohen’s Folk Devils and Moral Panics revisited
      Bill Osgerby
      11. Penguin Books in the long-1970s: a company not a sacred institution
      Peter Mayer
      12. Penguin Books and the ‘market place for ideas’
      Dean Blackburn
      13. Afterword: The future of the 1970s
      Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton

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