Preserving the Sixties: Britain and the 'Decade of Protest'
Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past.
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Preserving the Sixties: Britain and the 'Decade of Protest'
Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past.
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Preserving the Sixties: Britain and the 'Decade of Protest'

Preserving the Sixties: Britain and the 'Decade of Protest'

Preserving the Sixties: Britain and the 'Decade of Protest'

Preserving the Sixties: Britain and the 'Decade of Protest'

Overview

Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137374103
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 04/16/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 197
File size: 524 KB

About the Author

Alexis Chommeloux, University of Tours, France Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski, Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Mark Donnelly, St Mary's University College, London, UK Matthew Leggett, University of Burgundy, France R. J. Morris, University of Edinburgh, UK Martine Pelletier, University of Tours, France Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal, independent scholar, France Judith Roof, Rice University, Texas, USA Jeremy Tranmer, University of Nancy, France Peter Vernon, retired scholar, UK Ben Winsworth, University of Orleans, France

Table of Contents

Foreword; Dominic Sandbrook Introduction; Trevor Harris and Monia O'Brien Castro 1. Sixties Britain: the Cultural Politics of Historiography; Mark Donnelly PART I: POLITICS 2. The 1960s: Days of Innocence; R. J. Morris 3. The Abortion Act 1967: a Fundamental Change?; Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal and Matthew Leggett 4. Industrial Relations in the 1960s: the End of Voluntarism?; Alexis Chommeloux 5. The Radical Left and Popular Music in the 1960s; Jeremy Tranmer PART II: CULTURE 6. Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Friel's Freedom of the City; Martine Pelletier 7. Pulp Diction: Stereotypes in 1960s British Literature; Peter Vernon 8. Sketchy Counterculture; Judith Roof 9. Psychic Liberation in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Ben Winsworth 10. Preservation Society; Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski Conclusion; Trevor Harris and Monia O'Brien Castro
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