1938 : Social Change and Visions of the Future.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Figures
- Tables
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Partial history
- Chapter 2: Representations of modern life in 1938
- Being modern â#x80;#x93; speed and size
- Newsreels
- Cigarette cards
- Modern wonders for boys and young men
- Material aimed at adults
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Glasgowâ#x80;#x99;s Empire Exhibition
- Design of the exhibition
- Visiting and experiencing the exhibition
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Big-screen televisions and push-button radios
- Stages in disseminationRadio in 1938
- Radio broadcasting in 1938
- Television in 1938
- Television sets
- Programmes
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: The Adelphi Building
- The original Adelphi
- The intrusion of the modern world
- The development of head offices in Britain
- The Adelphi Building
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Picture Post â#x80;#x93; The modernity of everyday life
- The origins of Picture Post
- The look and content of Picture Post
- Celebrity culture in 1930s Britain
- Other 1930s ordinariness
- Ordinariness and democratization
- ConclusionChapter 7: Cars, coaches and charabancs at the Prospect Inn
- The growing popularity and luxury of charabancs and motor coaches
- Entertaining the charabanc tripper
- The halfway house
- New arterial roads and the Prospect Inn
- Charabancs and class separation
- Providing for the respectable working-class drinker
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Britainâ#x80;#x99;s new airports
- Interwar aviation and public admiration
- Interwar aviation and passenger travel
- Networks
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9: Conclusion
- Class and wealth
- Americanization