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A classless society : Britain in the 1990s / Alwyn W. Turner.

Title
A classless society : Britain in the 1990s / Alwyn W. Turner.
Author
Turner, Alwyn W.
Publication
London : Aurum, 2013.

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615 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour); 24 cm.
Summary
The first popular history of a decade that is yet to be defined or anatomised as the 1960s or 1970s have been, A Classless Society goes in search of a Britain still reeling from the conflicts of the Thatcher years.
Subject
  • Nineteen nineties
  • Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945-
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Buddha of Suburbia 1990 -- 1997 -- 1.Enter John Major: 'The devil you know' -- 2.Lads: 'All I found was cigarettes and alcohol' -- 3.Events: 'You're in a bad way' -- 4.Cool: 'It's like a new generation calling' -- 5.Bastards: 'I'm singing my song for Europe' -- 6.Charters: 'Caught by the fuzz' -- 7.Basics: 'I'm a weirdo' -- 8.Resignation: 'I get knocked down but I get up again' -- 9.Election: 'Things can only get better' -- Intermission: Patriotism: 'The England he knew is now no more' -- pt. Two New Angels of Promise 1997 -- 2001 -- 10.Enter Tony Blair: 'I bet this is as good as it gets' -- 11.Royalty: 'Storm the Palace' -- 12.Government: 'It all breaks down at the first rehearsal' -- 13.Generations: 'I've become so cynical these days' -- 14.Power: 'I don't want control of you' -- 15.Adventures: 'I can't imagine the world without me' -- 16.Reality: 'What I really really want' -- 17.Millennium: 'Let's all meet up in the year 2000'
ISBN
  • 9781781310687 (hbk.)
  • 1781310688 (hbk.)
  • 9781781311424 (ePub ebook)
  • 1781311420 (ePub ebook)
OCLC
859384362
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library