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This work should be a helpful starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain during the second half of the 20th century. Chapters on individual people and art forms give an overview of the progression of different genres at the time.
This work should be a helpful starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain during the second half of the 20th century. Chapters on individual people and art forms give an overview of the progression of different genres at the time.
The essays in this volume reflect on the fall of the British Empire, and its resonance in British popular culture. The demise of the Empire during the three decades following WWII transformed Britain's relationships with the wider world, and within Britain itself. The contributo…
The essays in this volume reflect on the fall of the British Empire, and its resonance in British popular culture. The demise of the Empire during the three decades following WWII transformed Britain's relationships with the wider world, and within Britain itself. The contributo…
A history of the negationist movement in France, its development and its main figures. Explains that the negationists call themselves revisionists, which does not make sense because they do not "revise" history but negate the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. Extremists am…
"The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. In particular, there is the fascinating paradox of how, from conditions of apparent long-term stability, radical policy change may suddenly erupt with gr…
This work uses detailed case-studies from British transport policy since 1945 to examine and explain the dynamics of major policy change.
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillanc…