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Media and the Making of the Labour Party

Laura Beers

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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674050020

Publication Date: 05/15/2010

Short

272 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

22 halftones, 1 table

World

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Rise of a Mass Media Culture
2. Speaking to the People
3. The Anti-Labour Turn
4. Changing Attitudes in the 1920s
5. The Labour Alternative
6. Battling for Public Opinion
7. Rapprochement with the Media
8. Experimenting in the 1930s
9. Election Victory
10. Impacts and Influences
Conclusion
Archives Consulted
Notes
Index

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