Brave new world : imperial and democratic nation-building in Britain between the wars /

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 w...

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Other Authors: Beers, Laura, 1978- (Editor), Thomas, Geraint (Historian) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Institute of Historical Research, 2011.
Series:Humanities Digital Library.
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505 0 |a Political modernity and 'government' in the construction of inter-war democracy : local and national encounters / Geraint Thomas -- Whig lessons, Conservative answers : the literary adventures of Sir J.A.R. Marriott / Gary Love -- The 'will to work' : industrial management and the question of conduct in inter-war Britain / Daniel Ussishkin -- Representing the people? The Daily mirror, class and political culture in inter-war Britain / Adrian Bingham -- 'A timid disbelief in the equality to which lip-service is constantly paid' : gender, politics and the press between the wars / Laura Beers -- Conservative values, Anglicans and the gender order in inter-war Britain / Lucy Delap -- Cultivating internationalism : Save the Children Fund, public opinion and the meaning of child relief, 1919-24 / Ellen Boucher -- 'Mending a broken world' : the universities and the nation, 1918-36 / Tamson Pietsch -- Inter-war agnotology : empire, democracy and the production of ignorance / Priya Satia -- Black intellectuals in the imperial metropolis and the debate over race and empire in Sanders of the river / Marc Matera -- Co-operatives and the technocrats, or 'the Fabian agony' revisited / Aaron Windel. 
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