Home Front in Britain - Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences Since 1914

"This collection of fourteen, academically rigorous and accessible chapters explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. The wide range of case studies include war widows allowances, Landgirls, the role of factory inspectors in WW1 and canal boat women, national savings, Guernsey evacuees and clothes rationing in WW2. The meaning and images of the British home and family in times of war are interrogated in the past and in contemporary culture to challenge prevalent myths of how working and domestic and shifted in times of national conflict. This volume is intended to encourage a reappraisal of the place of the Home Front in British conceptualisations of war and conflict"--

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• Authors: Maggie Andrews, Maggie Lomas Andrews, Janis Lomas
• Assisted by: Andrews (Editor), M Andrews (Editor), M. Andrews (Editor), Maggie Andrews (Editor), J. Lomas (Editor), Janis Lomas (Editor), Richard Smoke (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9781137348982
• ISBN: 978-1-137-34898-2
• No. of pages: 263
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Geschichte, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Amerika, Militärgeschichte, B, History, Politik und Staat, Westeuropa, Social History, Political Science, military history, Social & cultural history, Politics & government, Second World War, auseinandersetzen, United States of America, USA, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, US Politics, United States—Politics and government, History of Military, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust, American Politics