Affluence and Authority: A Social History of Twentieth-Century Britain

by John Benson

Overview

Provides a wide-ranging, well-informed, and accessible interpretation of British social history during a century of profound and unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological upheaval.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340763674
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/28/2005
Series:	A Hodder Arnold Publication
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

John Benson is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wolverhampton

Editorial Reviews

A major achievement...Offers an original and up-to-date history of twentieth-century Britain, as well as the conventional forces of greater prosperity and better health...Highlights the less obvious factors which have defined people's lives: the state, the influence of religion, education, the media, work, as well as the place of class and national allegiances in an increasingly fluid and multicultural Britain. He gives a genuine social history for the twenty-first century.” —John Stevenson, Reader in Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford

From the Publisher

A major achievement...Offers an original and up-to-date history of twentieth-century Britain, as well as the conventional forces of greater prosperity and better health...Highlights the less obvious factors which have defined people's lives: the state, the influence of religion, education, the media, work, as well as the place of class and national allegiances in an increasingly fluid and multicultural Britain. He gives a genuine social history for the twenty-first century.

John Stevenson