Contents: INTRODUCTION: PART I: 1. The eye of the beholder -- Each to the other -- Stability -- 2. America -- The Puritan ethic -- The Puritan ethic lives! -- What kept the Puritan ethic alive? -- Equality and/or liberty -- Achievement -- The incorporation of opposites -- Celtic circles and Roman squares -- 3. Britain -- Myths and elites -- Self-restraint -- Control of aggression -- Insularity -- 4. Anglo-American mirror images -- The Puritan ethic in Britain -- Equality and liberty in Britain -- Self-restraint in America -- Control of aggression in America -- Insularity in America -- The centre and the peripheries re-visited -- PART II: 5. An era of change? -- Cautions -- Three major changes and their effects -- 6. The 'new' values -- Introduction -- Technique infatuation -- Participatoriness -- Transitoriness -- Self-indulgence -- PART III: 7. Towards a culture of fusion -- The 'traditional' and the 'new' -- Consensus, polarization, synthesis -- Cultural fusion -- 8. The Americanization of British culture? -- Introduction -- The British as cultural importers -- The Americans as cultural exporters

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Label: Britain and America: an interpretation of their culture 1945-1975, [by] Daniel Snowman

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Contents: INTRODUCTION: PART I: 1. The eye of the beholder -- Each to the other -- Stability -- 2. America -- The Puritan ethic -- The Puritan ethic lives! -- What kept the Puritan ethic alive? -- Equality and/or liberty -- Achievement -- The incorporation of opposites -- Celtic circles and Roman squares -- 3. Britain -- Myths and elites -- Self-restraint -- Control of aggression -- Insularity -- 4. Anglo-American mirror images -- The Puritan ethic in Britain -- Equality and liberty in Britain -- Self-restraint in America -- Control of aggression in America -- Insularity in America -- The centre and the peripheries re-visited -- PART II: 5. An era of change? -- Cautions -- Three major changes and their effects -- 6. The 'new' values -- Introduction -- Technique infatuation -- Participatoriness -- Transitoriness -- Self-indulgence -- PART III: 7. Towards a culture of fusion -- The 'traditional' and the 'new' -- Consensus, polarization, synthesis -- Cultural fusion -- 8. The Americanization of British culture? -- Introduction -- The British as cultural importers -- The Americans as cultural exporters

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