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Politics of the Past
David Cowan
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Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939-2009
出版Cambridge University Press, 2024-04-11
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN10093403289781009340328
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Riz_EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period - between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub - shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stories about the inter-war period offered ordinary people an accessible way of engaging in politics. Drawing on six local case studies across Scotland and England, this book explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.