High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations;
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diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are
thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text. 'Something of
a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves
dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry
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