A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65: Tales of a New Jerusalem
Autor David Kynastonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 sep 2023
Evoluția istoriografiei sociale contemporane a abandonat demult simpla cronologie a marilor oameni de stat în favoarea unei „istorii de jos în sus”, care integrează textura vie a cotidianului. A Northern Wind reprezintă un exemplu strălucit al acestei schimbări de paradigmă, fiind noul volum din seria de referință Tales of a New Jerusalem. David Kynaston reușește să comprime doi ani și jumătate de transformări radicale (1962-1965) într-o narațiune densă, care surprinde momentul în care Marea Britanie a pășit ireversibil spre modernitate.
Recomandăm această lucrare pentru modul unic în care David Kynaston echilibrează evenimentele macroeconomice cu detalii aparent banale, dar revelatoare, extrase din jurnale private și presă. Structura cărții este polifonică; cititorul trece de la tensiunea Crizei Rachetelor din Cuba la fenomenul Beatles, de la scandaluri politice la apariția primelor magazine Habitat. Față de volumele anterioare, precum Family Britain, 1951-1957, unde accentul cădea pe reconstrucția postbelică, A Northern Wind analizează o societate care începe să conteste autoritatea tradițională și să îmbrățișeze consumismul.
Putem afirma că lucrarea este o alternativă necesară la Sixties Britain de Mark Donnelly pentru cursurile de istorie socială și culturală, cu avantajul unei abordări mult mai imersive și literare. În timp ce alte texte se concentrează pe analiza politică, Kynaston oferă o experiență senzorială a epocii, menținând rigoarea academică fără a sacrifica farmecul povestirii. Este o piesă esențială în vasta operă a autorului, completând viziunea sa asupra Marii Britanii postbelice începută cu Modernity Britain.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1526657570
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 160 x 238 x 60 mm
Greutate: 1.06 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Seria Tales of a New Jerusalem
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Această carte este indispensabilă studenților la istorie și pasionaților de sociologie care doresc să înțeleagă cum s-a născut Marea Britanie modernă. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă intimă asupra anilor '60, dincolo de mitul „swinging London”, descoperind cum evenimentele globale au rezonat în casele oamenilor obișnuiți. Este o lecție magistrală de istorie socială, scrisă cu o atenție remarcabilă pentru detaliul uman.
Descriere
The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' series.
'Addictively readable . . . Kynaston's tireless research turns up plenty of gems' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
'A breathtaking array of treasures' TLS
'Magisterial' Financial Times
'Here is an intricate tapestry that conveys the essence of time' Literary Review
How much can change in less than two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a prime minister utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors.
A Northern Wind, the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston's acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries, newspapers and first-hand recollections, Kynaston's masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events - the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Big Freeze, the assassination of JFK, the funeral of Winston Churchill - while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history.
Major themes complement the compelling narrative: an anti-Establishment mood epitomised by the BBC's controversial That Was The Week That Was; a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users; and the rise of consumer culture, as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birmingham's Bull Ring proliferated. Multi-voiced, multi-dimensional and immersive, Tales of a New Jerusalem has transformed how we see and understand post-war Britain. A Northern Wind continues the journey.
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With a beady but compassionate eye, Kynaston ranges over public records and private diaries, political speeches and TV interviews, in conjuring this fresco of the panoramic and the intimate . . . Much of it chimes weirdly with our present moment . . . It is characteristic of Kynaston to present such opposing views and somehow to harmonise them. He is the most humane and even-handed chronicler of our time, and the one best qualified to carry this mightily compelling national story onwards
As in the earlier volumes of this vivid history of postwar Britain, Kynaston's primary aim is to document "a ceaseless pageant as, in all its daily variousness, it moves through time". This he achieves with a breathtaking array of treasures: diaries, provincial newspapers, political speeches, films and novels are woven together to provide a kaleidoscope of contrasting perspectives, defying any attempt to create a neat story of progress or nationhood . . . This is a richly evocative, thought-provoking and, above all, compassionate study of those who lived through the much-mythologised 1960s. We can only hope that when historians write about our own times, they will extend the same generosity of spirit
The latest volume in a magisterial series on post-war Britain reveals a nation poised for change . . . Moves continuously and skilfully between moments of high politics and the daily rumble of normal people's lives . Extraordinarily atmospheric, capturing more than anything a sense of what this moment in the early 1960s might have felt like to live through . . . Kynaston's assessment is clear and erudite . . . What Kynaston is doing with this book and the Tales of a New Jerusalem series more widely is providing a chronicle from the bottom up of contemporary British history
Here is an intricate tapestry that conveys the essence of the time . . . A Northern Wind is not a superficial exercise in heritage history, an attempt to dress up the past . . . It analyses complexities, teases out nuances and gauges the currents of continuity and change, many of which still flow today
A collage of fragments interlaced with penetrating analysis, this book is always humane, often hilarious, devoid of dogma and never condescending
Let us be grateful for the collage of little pictures that Kynaston gives us, surely the most hyperreal of historical accounts of this period we will ever have. And let us hope for more volumes soon
PRAISE FOR 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' : Volumes full of treasure, serious history with a human face
No other writer evokes Britain's past so well
Kynaston has created a living, breathing, talking, singing, dancing, grumbling and complaining portrait of the British . . . Groundbreaking
Few historians have the power to make you feel you actually inhabit the times they are writing about. Kynaston does
One of the most remarkable literary projects of this century
The real strength of the book, and the series, is Kynaston's focus on the voices from below. Drawing on a daunting array of diaries, letters and cultural ephemera ranging from the most pop to the highest brow, the book frames history through the ordinary person's experience
[A] readable and richly detailed social history of the post-war period: it catalogues under two-and-a-half years in which, it seemed, the whole country changed . . . For all its documentary richness, the book reminds us - indeed warns us - how so much can change so quickly'