Martin Johnes

Wales since 1939 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. Yet its economy floundered between boom and bust, its traditional communities were transformed and the Welsh language and other aspects of its distinctiveness were undermined by a globalizing world. Wales was also deeply divided by class, language, ethnicity, gender, religion and region. Its people grew wealthier, healthier and more educated but they were not always happier. This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents' hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847795069
• Artikelnr.: 44008362

Autorenporträt

Martin Johnes is Head of History and Classics at Swansea University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'The waging of war', 1939
45 2. 'The spirit of reconstruction'1945
51 3. 'The hard times are finished': The coming of affluence, 1951
64 4. 'Promiscuous living': Youth culture and the permissive society, 1951
70 5. 'A new society': Class and urban communities, 1951
70 6. 'Life among the hills': The Welsh Way of Life, 1951
70 7. 'A cottonwool fuzz at the back of the mind': Language and nationhoods, 1951
70 8. 'Nationalists of many varieties', 1951
70 9. 'Black times': The Passing of Labour, 1966
85 10. 'Under an acid rain': Debating the nations, 1970
85 11. 'Adapt to the future': The Tory remaking of Wales, 1979
97 12. 'Who's happy?': Social change since 1970 13. 'They don't belong here': The countryside since 1970 14. 'A nation once again', 1997
2009 Conclusion Index