Twentieth-Century Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands

Preface, Bob Moore and Henk van Nierop

Introduction

1. Between Stupidity and Creativity: Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth-century, Ido de Haan (Utrecht)

Part I: Politics
2. Politics and People: Perceptions of the Masses in Dutch Politics, Henk te Velde (Leiden)
3. Dubious Democrats: Party Politics and the Mass Electorate in Twentieth-century Britain, Clare Griffiths (Sheffield)

Part II: Welfare
4. The Arrival of the Welfare State in Twentieth-century Mass Society: the Dutch Case, Joop M. Roebroek (Tilburg)
5. The Welfare State in Mass Society: Twentieth-century Britain, Pat Thane (ICH London)

Part III: Media
6. Media, Morality and Popular Culture: The Case of the Netherlands 1870-1965, Frank van Vree (Amsterdam)
7. The Devil's Decade and Modern Mass Communication: The Development of the British Media during the Inter-War Years, Kevin Williams (Swansea)

Part IV: Leisure
8. Leisure and Pleasure: Competing Ideologies and Strategies in the Netherlands, Theo Beckers (Tilburg)
9. 'Mass Leisure in Britain', Douglas Reid (Hull)

Pat V: Youth
10. The Youth Establishment in the Netherlands in the Twentieth-century, Piet de Rooij (Amsterdam)
11. 'Seized by Change, Liberated by Affluence': Youth, Consumption and Cultural Change in Post-war Britain, Bill Osgerby (London Met.)

Index