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No Turning Back: The Peaceful Revolutions of Post-War Britain Hardcover - 2010

by Paul Addison

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In No Turning Back, Paul Addison charts the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War, tracing a series of peaceful revolutions that have completely transformed the country. He shows, for instance, that much of the sexual morality preached if not practiced for centuries has been dismantled with the creation of a "permissive society." The employment and career chances of women have been revolutionized. A white nation has been transformed into a multiracial one. An economy founded on manufacturing under the watchful eye of the "gentlemen in Whitehall" has morphed into a free market system, heavily dependent on finance, services, and housing, while a predominantly working class society has evolved into a predominantly middle class one. Throughout, Addison infuses his narrative with the personal point of view of someone who has lived through it all and seen the Britain of his youth turn into a very different country, but who in the final reckoning still prefers the present to the past.

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  • Title No Turning Back: The Peaceful Revolutions of Post-War Britain
  • Author Paul Addison
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 2010-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780192192677 / 0192192671
  • Weight 1.86 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.1 x 9.8 x 1.25 in (15.49 x 24.89 x 3.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Social conditions - 1945-, Great Britain - Civilization - 1945-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010925606
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.085

About the author

Paul Addison taught history at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1996 and was Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies.

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cloth, xiii, 449 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Since the Second World War, Britain has been transformed by a series of peaceful revolutions---the rise of multiculturalism, the permissive society, and the service-based consumer economy, among many others. These, Paul Addison argues, have been more powerful agents of change than the Battle of the Somme or the Blitz ever were." "No Turning Back looks at the changing face of Britain in this period of rapid transformation, highlighting just how much has been gained---but not forgetting that much, too, has been lost." "Historian Paul Addison was born in the 1940s. In No Turning Back, he surveys the vast changes in the character of British society that he has observed in the period since. A series of peaceful revolutions has transformed the country; the comparative peace and… Read More
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