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Book SynopsisThis 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 Contents1. 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
