At Home and Under Fire - Air Raids and Culture in Britain From the Great War to the Blitz

Informationen zum Autor Susan Grayzel is the author of Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999), which was awarded the 2000 British Council Prize of the North American Conference of British Studies, and Women and the First World War (2002). She co-edited Gender, Labor, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain with Philippa Levine, published in 2009. Currently, Grayzel is a Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. Klappentext Demonstrates how the legacy of Britain's first air raids helped prepare civilians for the Second World War. Zusammenfassung This book studies British civilians' experiences of! and responses to! air raids during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British response to future wars and helped redefine a gendered understanding of how civilians should respond to modern war. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Modern war and the militarization of domestic life; 2. Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-16; 3. Redefining the battlezone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-18; 4. Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in interwar Britain; 5. Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come; 6. Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids; 7. Facing the future of air power: responding to interwar air raids; 8. Preparing the public for the next war: the expansion of air raid precautions; 9. Protecting the innocent: gas masks and the domestication of air raid precautions; 10. Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from Munich to the Blitz; 11. Representing the new air war: morale and the domestication of the air raid in wartime popular culture; 12. Conclusion: air raids and the domestication of modern war.

Product details

• Authors: Susan R Grayzel, Susan R. Grayzel, Susan R. (University of Mississippi) Grayzel, Grayzel Susan R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521874946
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87494-6
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Literature in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I