Home Fronts - Britain and the Empire at War, 1939-45

Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories.

List of contents

Introduction: Home Fronts and the Empire at War - and
British Restaurants and the Gender Politics of the Wartime Midday Meal - Nadja Durbach
A Nutritional Economy: The Calorie, Development, and War in Mandate Palestine - Sherene Seikaly
Rubber Shortages on Britain's Home Front -
Nation-Building and Nationalism in Bengali Children's Literature during the 1940s and 1950s - Nupur Chaudhuri
'Young blood' and 'the blackout': Love, Sex and Marriage on the South African Home Front - Jean Smith
Ceylon's Home Front during the Second World War - Ashley Jackson
Nyanza at War: Kenya and the Mobilisation of Britain's Colonial Empire - Andrew Stewart
'Fighting In Their Ways'? The Civilian Man in British Culture, 1939-1945 - Linsey Robb
'The Royal Mail will always get through' - Maintaining Communications on the Home and Military Front during the Second World War -
'National Necessity' and 'Patriotic Duty': Railway Publicity in World War II India - Ritika Prasad
Removing Danger from the Home Front in Australia - Christine Winter
Bombs and Recycling Drives: The Double Threat to Books and Documents in Wartime Britain - Peter Thorsheim
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About the author

Mark J. Crowley, Sandra Trudgen Dawson

Summary

Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories.

Product details

• Authors: Mark J Crowley, Mark J. Crowley, Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Ashley Jackson, Trudgen Dawson Sandra, Andrew Stewart, Christine Winter
• Assisted by: Mark J Crowley (Editor), Mark J. Crowley (Editor), Mark J. (Person) Crowley (Editor), Sandra Trudgen Dawson (Editor), Sandra Trudgen (Customer Opt-In) Dawson (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781783272259
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-225-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 556 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918