The Right to Belong - Citizenship and National Identity in Britain 1930-1960

Informationen zum Autor Richard Weight is Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, London.Abigail Beach is Research Fellow at the Department of History, University College London. Klappentext The period 1940-1960 was a time of considerable change in British society. It saw the emergence of mass democracy, a world war and then unprecedented affluence. Change brought uncertainty among Britain s elites, which in turn encouraged them to reflect more acutely on the direction the nation was taking. Questions were posed: what was the social role of ordinary men and women in 20th-century Britain? What were their needs, their rights, their responsibilities? How did they stand in relation not only to the State but to their regions and communities? And how were those objects of loyalty or disloyalty defined? Who, in other words, were the British, and by what processes did they come to be so considered?; The contributors explore the development of these ideas by a variety of individuals and organizations, and the relationship between these opinion-makers and political parties. They also examine the extent to which their conclusions were translated into social policy in an attempt to shape the evolution of modern Britain." Vorwort This work explores citizenship and its relationship to Britain's national identity Zusammenfassung This work explores citizenship and its relationship to Britain's national identity

Product details

• Authors: Abigail Beach, WEIGHT, Richard Weight, Richard Beach Weight
• Assisted by: Abigail Beach (Editor), Richard Weight (Editor), Richard (writer and broadcaster Weight (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2017
• EAN: 9781784531805
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-180-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Social and Cultural History Today; Social and Cultural History To
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; 1950 bis 1959 n. Chr., 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Politische Bildung und Zivilgesellschaft