| Titre : |
British society, 1914-45 |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
John Stevenson, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
London : Penguin Books |
| Année de publication : |
1984 |
| Importance : |
(503 p.) |
| Présentation : |
couv. ill. en coul. |
| Format : |
20 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-14-013818-4 |
| Note générale : |
Autre(s) tirage(s) : 1990 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Civilization Great Britain 1900-1945 Social conditions Social policy Manners and customs. |
| Résumé : |
“England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much quoted passage,” wrote George Orwell in 1940, “nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr. Goebbels. More than either, it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family….” With two world wars sandwiching the Depression years, the essential flavour of British society 1914-45 was one of moderation and consensus.
John Stevenson's social history opens with the Great War and ends with a chapter on the effects of the Second World War; in between, he analyses the trends and changes—mass unemployment, increasing government control, improved welfare services and education, smaller families, votes for women, broadcasting and the cinema, the “golden age” of cricket, chain-stores, the advertising boom and much more—to build up a vivid and interesting picture of what it was like living in Britain 1914-45. |
British society, 1914-45 [texte imprimé] / John Stevenson, Auteur . - [S.l.] : London : Penguin Books, 1984 . - (503 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-0-14-013818-4 Autre(s) tirage(s) : 1990 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
Civilization Great Britain 1900-1945 Social conditions Social policy Manners and customs. |
| Résumé : |
“England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s much quoted passage,” wrote George Orwell in 1940, “nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr. Goebbels. More than either, it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family….” With two world wars sandwiching the Depression years, the essential flavour of British society 1914-45 was one of moderation and consensus.
John Stevenson's social history opens with the Great War and ends with a chapter on the effects of the Second World War; in between, he analyses the trends and changes—mass unemployment, increasing government control, improved welfare services and education, smaller families, votes for women, broadcasting and the cinema, the “golden age” of cricket, chain-stores, the advertising boom and much more—to build up a vivid and interesting picture of what it was like living in Britain 1914-45. |
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