• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Brave new world : imperial and democratic nation-building in Britain between the wars
  • Contributor: Thomas, Geraint [HerausgeberIn]; Beers, Laura [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: London: Institute of Historical Research, 2011
  • Published in: Humanities Digital Library
    Open Access e-Books
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 273 pages)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781905165582; 1909646458; 1905165587; 9781909646452
  • Keywords: Nationalism Great Britain 20th century Congresses ; Nationalism ; Conference papers and proceedings ; History ; Great Britain ; Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Congresses
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "This volume grew out of a conference held at Newnham College, Cambridge in April 2009"--Acknowledgements
    Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: 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

    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
  • Access State: Open Access