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What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared? This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book.

Right of property. --- Property --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Atlantic World. --- Cultural History. --- Edmund Burke. --- Enclosures. --- Intellectual History. --- John Locke. --- Karl Marx. --- Private Property. --- Silicon Valley. --- Thatcherism. --- Whiteness.

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An in-depth history of how finance remade everyday life in Thatcher's Britain. Are We Rich Yet? tells the story of the financialization of British society. During the 1980s and 1990s, financial markets became part of daily life for many Britons as the practice of investing moved away from the offices of the City of London, onto Britain's high streets, and into people's homes. The Conservative Party claimed this shift as evidence that capital ownership was in the process of being democratized. In practice, investing became more institutionalized than ever in late-twentieth-century Britain: inclusion frequently meant tying one's fortunes to the credit, insurance, pension, and mortgage industries to maintain independence from state-run support systems.   In tracing the rise of a consumer-oriented mass investment culture, historian Amy Edwards explains how the "financial" became such a central part of British society, not only economically and politically, but socially and culturally, too. She shifts our focus away from the corridors of Whitehall and towards a cast of characters that included brokers, bankers and traders, newspaper editors, goods manufacturers, marketing departments, production companies, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women. Between them, they shaped the terrain upon which political and economic reform occurred. Grappling with the interactions between structural transformation and the rhythms of everyday life, Are We Rich Yet? thus understands the rise of neoliberalism as something other than the inevitable outcome of a carefully orchestrated right-wing political revolution.

Investments --- Finance --- Capitalism --- Great Britain --- Economic conditions --- 80s. --- 90s. --- British financial policy. --- London Stock Exchange. --- Margaret Thatcher government. --- Thatcherism. --- banking industry. --- culture. --- financial literacy. --- financialization. --- investment clubs. --- middle class investors. --- popular investing. --- stock market. --- yuppie-trader. --- yuppies.

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In this text devoted to the Smiths, writers from a range of perspectives set out to consider the cultural significance and enduring appeal of one of the most influential and controversial bands of recent decades.

Rock music --- Rock and roll music --- Rock-n-roll music --- Popular music --- Social aspects --- Smiths (Musical group) --- The Smiths (Musical group) --- Catholicism. --- Englishness. --- Manchester. --- Morrissey. --- Thatcherism. --- The Smiths. --- cultural iconography. --- kitchen-sink dramas. --- musical poetics. --- national identity. --- pop culture studies. --- popular culture. --- sexuality. --- suicide.

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This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic, political and historic contexts.

Vaucher, Gee. --- Vaucher, Gee --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Outsider art --- Punk culture and art. --- Feminism in art. --- Political art. --- Punk (Mouvement) et art. --- Féminisme dans l'art. --- England --- 1970s radical art. --- Anarcho-feminism. --- Banksy. --- Crass. --- Dada. --- Punk. --- Stonehenge Festival. --- Thatcherism. --- Underground Press. --- Young British Artists.

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A kaleidoscopic history of a world city over two eventful decadesWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John Davis paints lively and colorful portraits of life in the British capital, covering topics as varied as the rise and fall of boutique fashion, Soho and the sex trade, eating out in London, cabbies and tourists, gentrification, conservation, suburbia and the welfare state.With vivid and immersive scene-setting, Davis traces how ‘swinging London’ captured the world’s attention in the mid-sixties, discarding postwar austerity as it built a global reputation for youthful confidence and innovative music and fashion. He charts the slow erosion of mid-sixties optimism, showing how a newly prosperous city grappled with problems of deindustrialisation, inner-city blight and racial friction. Davis reveals how London underwent a complex evolution that reflected an underlying tension between majority affluence and minority deprivation. He argues that the London that had taken shape by the time of Margaret Thatcher’s election as prime minister in 1979 already displayed many of the features that would come to be associated with ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ of the eighties.Monumental in scope, Waterloo Sunrise draws on a wealth of archival evidence to provide an evocative, engrossing account of Britain’s ever-evolving capital city.

London (England) --- History --- Social change --- Nineteen sixties. --- Nineteen seventies. --- 1970s --- 70s (Twentieth century decade) --- Seventies (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- 1960s --- 60s (Twentieth century decade) --- Sixties (Twentieth century decade) --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Activism. --- Advertising. --- Annual report. --- Authoritarianism. --- Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency). --- Behavior. --- Boosterism. --- Boutique. --- Brigitte Bardot. --- Canonbury. --- Carnaby Street (radio programme). --- Carnaby Street. --- Central London. --- Cess. --- Chairman. --- Clothing. --- Community development. --- Community politics. --- Competition. --- Correspondent. --- Council house. --- Councillor. --- Customer. --- Deckchair. --- Deindustrialization. --- Designer. --- Employment. --- Eviction. --- Feminism (international relations). --- Figurehead. --- Gentrification. --- Greater London Council. --- Greater London. --- Harrods. --- Headstone Manor. --- Homelessness. --- Hostel. --- Immigration. --- Income. --- Indication (medicine). --- Individualism. --- Inner London. --- John Stephen. --- Journalism. --- Kings Cross, London. --- Labour council. --- Leeds Permanent Building Society. --- Legislation. --- Local government. --- London boroughs. --- Mary Quant. --- Meal. --- Minority group. --- North Sea oil. --- Notting Hill. --- Patrick Geddes. --- Permanent revolution. --- Politics. --- Port of London Authority. --- Post-industrial society. --- Predictability. --- Prosecutor. --- Public housing in the United Kingdom. --- Public housing. --- Public inquiry. --- Racism. --- Real estate economics. --- Red tape. --- Red wine. --- Redevelopment. --- Renovation. --- Restaurant. --- Retail. --- Romford. --- Ronan Point. --- Royal Town Planning Institute. --- Shortage. --- Simon Jenkins. --- Slum. --- Social Security System (Philippines). --- South London Press. --- Spaghetti alle vongole. --- Strip club. --- Structure plan. --- Student protest. --- Suburb. --- Suede. --- Suggestion. --- Swinging (sexual practice). --- Swinging London. --- Thatcherism. --- Tourism. --- Trafalgar Square. --- Trattoria. --- Unemployment. --- Unilever. --- Urban planning. --- Wealth. --- Welfare state. --- White paper.