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• Author/Creator:Hubble, Nick, 1965-
  
• Title:Mass-Observation and everyday life : culture, history, theory / Nick Hubble.
  
• ISBN:9780230503144
  0230503144
  1349517941
  9781349517947
  9781349517947
  1280425458
  9781280425455
  1403935556
  9781403935557
  
• Published/Created:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource. (xi, 250 pages)
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary:Mass-Observation was founded in 1937 & played a major role in the formation of Britain's idea of itself during the middle decades of the 20th century. This study explores the influence of social research on the development of policy & mass democracy.
  
• Variant and related titles:Palgrave social & cultural studies collection 2005.
  
• Other formats:Print version: Hubble, Nick, 1965- Mass-Observation and everyday life. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 230-241) and index.
  
• Contents:List of Abbreviations -- Acknowlegdements -- Defining Mass-Observation -- A Brief History of Mass-Observation -- Everyday Life and Social Transformation -- Everyday Life in the Long Twentieth Century -- Social Surveys: From Booth's Life and Labour of the London Poor to Kracauer's Die Angestellten and the Lynd's Middeltown -- Cambridge Experiment -- Letter to Oxford -- British Social Anthropology -- Popular Poetry and the 'Thirties' -- Profane Illumination and New Objectivity; English Surrealism and British Democracy -- Empson's Imaginary Solution -- The Formation of Mass-Observation -- Coronation Pastoral -- First Year's Work -- First Year's Reception -- The Munich Crisis -- The Lambeth Walk -- Active Leadership and the Civilian Army -- The Ministry of Everyday -- Co-operating with the Tax Collector -- Politics, Pubs, Penguins -- Society in the Mind -- Resumption of the People's War -- Conclusion: Mass-Observation Reassessed -- Bibliography and Sources -- Index.
  
• Subjects:Mass-Observation.
  Mass-Observation (Firm)
  Social history--20th century.
  Social history--Historiography.
  Social surveys--Great Britain--History--20th century.
  Social conditions
  Social surveys.
  Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
  Great Britain.
  
• Genre/Form:Electronic books.
  History.
  
• Also listed under:Palgrave Connect (Online service)