Britain after empire : constructing a post-war political-culture project / P. W. Preston, professor of Political Sociology, University of Birmingham, UK.

• After the Empire: establishment designs, high arts and popular culture in Britain -- Foundation myths: the war, wartime, and 'Continuing Britain' -- Grand designs: patrician reformers, subaltern demands and the ideal of welfare -- Making enemies: the Cold War -- Voices of complaint, voices of assertion -- Patrician retreat: quickening change in the 1950s and early 1960s -- Affluence attained, affluence doubted -- Corporate world, media and politics -- Amongst the bullshit industries -- Familiar Utopias: new technologies and the Internet -- Continuing Britain: contemporary political culture unpacked.

• "Tracking the intermingled intellectual and moral response of elites and masses to the loss of empire in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how the elite in Britain sought to fashion a new identity for itself, how this was promulgated amongst the wider population and how ordinary people responded. These responses can be uncovered in elite designs including policies, plans, declarations; high art such as novels, theatre, fine arts and art-house films as well as through the medium of popular culture like radio, film, television, newspapers and magazines. These layers of meanings can be found in the slow development of the public sphere, as events produced reactions that laid down ideas that run into the present. The collective upshot has been the creation of a shifting, contested and finally unsustainable idea of what it is to be 'British'."--Publishers website. 

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Political culture  -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Elite (Social sciences)  -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Social classes  -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

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Great Britain  -- Politics and government -- 20th century. (LCSH)

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