Table of Contents

Part 1 A nation in transition: a cultural revolution?; the paternalist inheritance - Paternalism's Indian summer, the contradictions of paternalism, the paternalist distortion. Part 2 The revolt against paternalism: early signs; a revolt aborted; seeds of revolution; Thatcher's victory; revolt on the left. Part 3 The radical challenge: the revolution versus class; a new middle class; an international invasion; in place of decline. Part 4 The paternalist resistance: new battle lines; the public sector resistance; the High-Tory resistance; an anti-modern culture; the children of paternalism - a question of class, a question of worth, a question of accent, a ruling class; "Culture" against the revolution; an insular disposition - the bloodless intellectual remnant; the constitution of the "ancien regime" - the taboo of monarchy, symbols and images of yore. Part 5 The emerging democratic polity: an end to paternalism; the new polity.