Reassessing 1970s Britain [Paperback]

Available in paperback for the first time, this book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.

In addressing the ideational contours of the decade, Reassessing 1970s Britain takes an innovative approach. It assembles a group of actors who were influential in generating and disseminating new ideas in the 1970s to reflect on key texts and arguments in which they were closely involved during that decade, and debate them with contemporary historians. It ranges over a wide field, encompassing politics, economics, womens liberation and popular culture. It also engages with the ways in which such ideas were disseminated to a wider audience.

Reassessing 1970s Britain will be of interest to lecturers and students in a wide range of disciplines: modern British history, economic history, cultural history, social history, politics, gender studies and cultural studies.This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century.1. Introduction: The benighted decade? Reassessing the seventies  Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton
2. The politics of economic decline in the 1970s  James Alt
3. The politics of declinism  Jim Tomlinson
4. A time for confession  Samuel Brittan
5. Brittan on Britain: decline, declinism and the traumas of the 1970s  Roger Middleton
6. Alternative European and economic strategies  Stuart Holland
7. The challenge of Stuart Holland: the Labour Partys economic strategy during the 1970s  Mark Wickham-Jones
8. Jam today: feminist impacts and transformations in the 1970s  Lynne Segal
9. Women and the 1970s. Towards liberation?  Pat Thane
10. Stanley Cohens Folk Devils and Moral Panics revisited  Bill Osgerby
11. Penguin Books in the long-1970s: a company not a sacred institution  Peter Mayer
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