Lecture Notes on Modern British History (history School)
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Urbanization, the wave of late marriage, urban-rural differences, welfare society, class mobility... How did modern Britain affect today's world? The lecture notes of the popular Japanese Western history master have been released to the public. Let's walk into the "warm" modern British history together! Why did the world's first industrialization occur in Britain? Why did the once glorious Britain become a country full of strikes and unemployment in the second half of the 20th century? Did Thatcher's reforms bring a new "sunrise" to the "empire on which the sun never sets"? Why did the "British Decline Theory" arise? How does a society with "stagnant development" face the future? This book is an introductory work on modern British history written by Japanese historian Minoru Kawakita. Different from the traditional writing method based on the chronology of events, this book starts from the perspective of people's lives and integrates different perspectives such as sociology, economics, and culture to examine the changes in Britain's modern urban landscape under the ever-expanding world system and its relevance to today's globalized society. While exploring "why the UK succeeded", it also focused on analyzing the issue of "why the UK declined" and compared it with Japan's "lost twenty years" when economic development was stagnant. It pointed out that people's psychological "sense of recession" and the actual "recession" are not the same thing, and re-examined the psychological paranoia behind the obsession with the "economic growth myth".
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