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Island thinking : Suffolk stories of landscape, militarisation and identity / Sophia Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Sophia Danielle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Isolationism.
- Land use.
- History.
- Suffolk (England)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Suffolk (England).
- Land use--England--Suffolk--History--20th century.
- Isolationism--England--Suffolk.
- National characteristics, English.
- Social conditions.
- England--Suffolk.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Suffolk stories of landscape, militarisation and identity
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- Summary:
- Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its insular core--back cover.
- Contents:
- Island stories
- Secluded Suffolk: countryside writing, c. 1930-1960
- Invaded island: wartime enclosures and post-war memories
- Looking to the skies: post-war radar stories
- Birds and belonging: the return of the Avocet, 1947-1969
- Nature set in reserve: 1950s-1960s nature conservation
- Rewilding and war monuments: Orford Ness, c. 1995 to the present
- Conclusions
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789811396755
- 9811396752
- OCLC:
- 1120067681
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