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The Making of Modern Britain (Paperback, Reprints)
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The Making of Modern Britain (Paperback, Reprints)
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Discovery Miles 3 690
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In "The Making of Modern Britain," Andrew Marr paints a fascinating
portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth
century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the
British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of
the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The
two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace
among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum
moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic
Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas
as they struggled to answer the question 'How should we live?'
Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics,
vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the
popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that
witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the
beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and
Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness,
of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and
raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and
celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy
politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every
page.
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