5 January 2012
245 × 163 mm
296 pp
Formats:
Hardback: 978-1-905165-58-2
PDF: 978-1-909646-45-2
PDF: 978-1-909646-45-2
Description:
After the First World War, Britain faced a number of challenges as it sought to adapt to domestic conditions of mass democracy while maintaining its position in the empire in the face of national independence movements. As politicians at home and abroad sought to legitimize their position, new efforts were made to conceptualize nationality and citizenship, with attempts to engage the public using mass media and greater emphasis on governing in the public interest. Brave New World reappraises the domestic and imperial history of Britain in the inter-war period, investigating how 'nation building' was given renewed impetus by the upheavals of the First World War. The essays in this collection address how new technologies and approaches to governance were used to forge new national identities both at home and in the empire, covering a wide range of issues from the representation of empire on film to the convergence of politics and 'star culture'. The book is an invaluable resource for scholars of British social, political and imperial history, as well as being of interest to the general reader.
Table of contents:
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. Political modernity and ‘government’ in the construction of inter-war democracy: local and national encountersGeraint Thomas
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. Whig lessons, Conservative answers: the literary adventures of Sir J. A. R. MarriottGary Love
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. The ‘Will to Work’: industrial management and the question of conduct in inter-war BritainDaniel Ussishkin
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. Representing the people? The Daily Mirror, class and political culture in inter-war BritainAdrian Bingham
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. ‘A timid disbelief in the equality to which lip-service is constantly paid’: gender, politics and the press between the warsLaura Beers
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. Conservative values, Anglicans and the gender order in inter-war BritainLucy Delap
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. Cultivating internationalism: Save the Children Fund, public opinion and the meaning of child relief, 1919–24Ellen Boucher
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. ‘Mending a broken world’: the universities and the nation, 1918–36Tamson Pietsch
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. Inter-war agnotology: empire, democracy and the production of ignorancePriya Satia
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. Black intellectuals in the imperial metropolis and the debate over race and empire in Sanders of the RiverMarc Matera
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. Co-operatives and the technocrats, or ‘the Fabian agony’ revisitedAaron Windel