Austerity Britain, 1945-51 / David Kynaston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kynaston, David.

Contributor:

Kynaston, David.

Series:

Kynaston, David. Tales of a new Jerusalem ; bk. 1-2.

Tales of a new Jerusalem ; 1-2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-1964.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Social conditions--1945-.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

viii, 692 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Austerity Britain, 1945-1951

Place of Publication:

New York : Walker & Co., 2008.

Contents:

A World to Build

1 Waiting for Something to Happen 5

2 Broad Vistas and All That 19

3 Oh Wonderful People of Britain! 60

4 We're So Short of Everything 93

5 Constructively Revolutionary 129

6 Farewell Squalor 143

7 Glad to Sit at Home 171

8 Christ It's Bleeding Cold 185

9 Our Prestige at Stake 206

10 The Whole World Is Full of Permits 222

11 Ain't She Lovely? 242

12 A Change in the Terms of Struggle 278

Smoke in the Valley

1 What Do You Say? 291

2 Oh, for a Little Extra Butter! 296

3 Jolly Good as a Whole 325

4 A Decent Way of Life 352

5 A Negative of Snowflakes 397

6 Part of the Machinery 405

7 Stiff and Rigid and Unadaptable 431

8 Too High a Price 460

9 Proper Bloody Products 470

10 Andy Is Waving Goodbye 503

11 The Heaviest Burden 535

12 A Kind of Measuring-Rod 560

13 Their Own Private Domain 592

14 That Dump? 619.

Notes:

"Austerity Britain comprises A world to build and Smoke in the valley, the first two books of Tales of a New Jerusalem, a projected sequence about Britain between 1945 and 1979"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury in 2007"--T.p. verso.

Related Work:

Kynaston, David. World to build.

Kynaston, David. Smoke in the valley.

ISBN:

9780802716934

0802716938

OCLC:

179789447