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..".a brilliantly written, deeply subtle critique of social classes and cultural attitudes from the Armistice to the Festival of Britain....[McKibbin] has deconstructed the essence of a great people, with skill and an Australian's wry detachment."--The Guardian
..".a work of major importance that will have to be taken seriously by anyone concerned with the role of class in twentieth-century England."--American Historical Review
..".this very original analysis of English society during a handful of decades in the first half of the twentieth century merits attention precisely because it suggests how much can be accomplished if an effort is made to combine a consideration of changes in social class structure with cultural continuities and transformations....McKibbin's genius resides in his capacity to dwell on significant detail, to provide statistical data of every kind, at the same time offering provocative insights on the information he has garnered through a close study of m
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..".a brilliantly written, deeply subtle critique of social classes and cultural attitudes from the Armistice to the Festival of Britain....[McKibbin] has deconstructed the essence of a great people, with skill and an Australian's wry detachment."--The Guardian
..".a work of major importance that will have to be taken seriously by anyone concerned with the role of class in twentieth-century England."--American Historical Review
..".this very original analysis of English society during a handful of decades in the first half of the twentieth century merits attention precisely because it suggests how much can be accomplished if an effort is made to combine a consideration of changes in social class structure with cultural continuities and transformations....McKibbin's genius resides in his capacity to dwell on significant detail, to provide statistical data of every kind, at the same time offering provocative insights on the information he has garnered through a close study of m --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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THE English had no doubt, at least for most of the period 1918-51, that there was an upper class, though they would not necessarily have agreed as to its boundaries. Read the first page
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Ross McKibbin has always been at his best rummaging around in the bars, betting shops and back alleys of British life that other historians find a little infra dig. Some might find his dissection of working-class life between the world wars too dry and lacking in imaginative sympathy, but on the other hand the sheer weight of evidence he amasses is impressive. He even finds space to suggest that the British film industry was better than Hollywood (what was so bad about "Mrs Miniver", if you please?). The major drawback of this book, actually, is that it has no pictures. Surely a social history of a period like this is simply crying out to have pages and pages of illustrations.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I discovered this book in the public library, and I’d borrowed it and read about a third before resolving to buy. So I’d decided it was a great read before buying it.
I was born in the late 40s, so the period the book deals with is that which shaped my parents lives, and from which echoes endured into my childhood – into the 60s really. Perhaps because of this, I found the book fascinating – a period so close to my own, about which I was pretty ignorant. And it’s well written.
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