Martin Daunton provides a view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festiva... » 

Martin Daunton provides a view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. The book stresses modernity and the growth of new patterns of consumption in areas such as the service sector and the leisure industry. «