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  • Not Like Home

    American Visitors to Britain in the 1950s

    by Michael John Law ...
    Series Book 1 - McGill-Queen's Transatlantic Studies
    In the decade of economic expansion following the Second World War, many ordinary Americans travelled abroad for the first time. Those who visited Britain were surprised to find that the people they encountered were not the aristocrats or working-class ciphers they knew from Hollywood movies. Britons' views of Americans were likewise informed by films and by encounters with the American military ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Not Like Home

    American Visitors to Britain in the 1950s

    by Michael John Law ...
    Series Book 1 - McGill-Queen's Transatlantic Studies
    In the decade of economic expansion following the Second World War, many ordinary Americans travelled abroad for the first time. Those who visited Britain were surprised to find that the people they encountered were not the aristocrats or working-class ciphers they knew from Hollywood movies. Britons' views of Americans were likewise informed by films and by encounters with the American military ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • 1938: Modern Britain

    Social Change and Visions of the Future

    by Dr. Michael John Law ...
    In 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series of case studies that in many ways life in that year was far more modern than might have been thought.By considering topics as diverse as the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Roadhouse Comes to Britain

    Drinking, Driving and Dancing, 1925-1955

    by David W. Gutzke, Dr. Michael John Law ...
    This is the first book to examine the cultural phenomenon of the roadhouse in mid 20th-century Britain and its impact on British leisure. The term 'roadhouse' was used in varied ways in the 1930s, from small roadside tearooms to enormous establishments on the outskirts of major cities. These roadhouses were an important component in the transformation of leisure in the 1930s and beyond, reflecting ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London

    by Judith Walkowitz ...
    London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged ... Read more

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  • J.B. Priestley

    by Maggie B. Gale ...
    Series series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists
    J. B. Priestley is the first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of the enormous contribution made by this playwright, novelist, journalist and critic to twentieth century British theatre.Priestley was often criticised for being either too populist or too experimental and this study unpicks the contradictions of a playwright and theatre theorist popular with audiences but too often ... Read more

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  • Commemorative Events

    Memory, Identities, Conflict

    by Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
    Commemorative Events emphasise remembering. They are held on the anniversaries of significant past events, either annually or after significant time periods. Commemorative events provide fascinating insight into how societies see themselves, their heritage and their identity. These events however carry high propensity for controversy as memory and identity are highly subjective and other ... Read more

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  • The Thirties

    An Intimate History of Britain

    by Juliet Gardiner ...
    Acclaimed author of 'Wartime', Juliet Gardiner, brings to life the long neglected decade of the twentieth century – the 1930s.J.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenth-century England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed, a land of contrasts, at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression, unemployment and ... Read more

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  • Bleak Houses

    Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

    by Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin ...
    Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists.The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Australia And How To Find It

    Australia, a personal story, #3

    by Patsy Trench ...
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    WHY were men and women in New South Wales once ordered to wear skirts for sea bathing?WHAT did famous writers such as Mark Twain and Anthony Trollope have to say about Australia?HOW did the miracle known as the Sydney Opera House ever see the light of day?WHAT'S the point of family history?Australia And How To Find It is a mixture of odds and sods about that weird, eccentric country... ... Read more

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  • Consuming Passions

    Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

    by Judith Flanders ...
    A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.Imagine a world where only one in five people owns a book, where just one in ten has a knife or a fork – a world where five people out of every six do not own a cup to hold a hot ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD