The New Society

viii, 118pp. In grey cloth-covered boards with red lettering on spine (Boards a little rounded at corners and spine ends, with an area of mottled discolouration along top edge). Previous owner’s name on a tanned front free endpaper, a little occasional, faint foxing. In its original worn and bumped dust jacket, chapped at spine ends with minor loss at head of spine. The six lectures which make up this volume were delivered by E H Carr on the BBC’s Third Programme in May and June 1951; they are The Historical Approach; From Competition to Planned Economy; From Economic Whip to Welfare State; From Individualism to Mass Democracy; The World Transformed; and Road to Freedom. Together they trace and record the substantial changes taking place in western society’s and political structures in the aftermath of the second world war. Tall 12mo.