British Identity in World War I - The Lost Boys

This book examines the impact of World War I on the upper-class British youth who lived through and fought in the war.

List of contents

Chapter 1: British Upper-Class Identity as a Legitimizing Collective Identity
Chapter 2: The Fracture of Upper-Class Identity
Chapter 3: Cultural or Collective Trauma and Collective Identity
Chapter 4: Forms of Resistance Identity
Chapter 5: Project Identities: Pacifism and Building an Anti-Modern World

About the author

Mary K. Laurents is lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County and the Department of Public History at Stevenson University.

Product details

• Authors: Mary K Laurents, Mary K. Laurents
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781793617422
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-742-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, First World War, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, General and world history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I