Governing Prosperity
Governing Prosperity
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USDThe 1950s' undeniable prosperity has become synonymous with conservatism, and inertia seen as its hallmark. This book offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of the 1950s in Australia. Nicholas Brown presents the decade as a time of great change, brought about by affluence. Society became increasingly complex, mass consumption reached new heights and Australia's role in the world and the region was re-cast. The book looks at the ways in which those overseeing society responded to these post-war changes; in short, how they governed prosperity. A history of ideas as well as cultural, intellectual and institutional history, Governing Prosperity is a major reassessment of the 1950s. It will be particularly important for its analysis of the significance of the decade in the development of Australian society.
- Innovative, revisionist history. New perspective on familiar controversies
- Rigourous and incisive, while accessible
- Brown's chapter in Australian Popular Culture (ed. Ian Craven) has been very well received
Product details
December 1995Paperback
9780521477321
312 pages
229 × 152 × 18 mm
0.46kg
Available
Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. A part of Asia
- 2. 'A test of our quality as a nation'
- 3. The milk bar economy
- 4. Decentralisation and the organisation of life
- 5. Concepts of self and society
- 6. 'A community with a climate of its own'
- Notes
- Index.
