The Home Front in Britain : Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914 / by Janis Lomas ; edited by M. Andrews.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lomas, Janis, Author.

Contributor:

• Andrews, M., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Great Britain--History.
• Social history.
• Military history.
• World War, 1939-1945.
• History, Modern.
• America--Politics and government.
• History of Britain and Ireland.
• Social History.
• Military History.
• History of World War II and the Holocaust.
• Modern History.
• American Politics.

Local Subjects:

• History of Britain and Ireland.
• Social History.
• Military History.
• History of World War II and the Holocaust.
• Modern History.
• American Politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and domestic life was shifted by national conflict.

Contents:

• Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Ideas and Ideals of Domesticity and Home in the First World War; 2 A Personal Account of the Home Front; 3 Soldiering On: War Widows in First World War Britain; 4 Mortality or Morality? Keeping Workers Safe in the First World War; 5 A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the First World War Home Front; 6 Female Agricultural Workers in Wales in the First World War; 7 Ellen Wilkinson and Home Security 1940-1945
• 8 Guernsey Mothers and Children: Forgotten Evacuees9 The Home Front as a 'Moment' for Animals and Humans: Exploring the Animal-Human Relationship in Contemporary Diaries and Letters; 10 The Weak and the Wicked: Non-conscripted Masculinities in 1940s British Cinema; 11 Second World War Rationing: Creativity and Buying to Last; 12 Idle Women: Challenging Gender Stereotypes on Britain's Inland Waterways During the Second World War; 13 'Doing Your Bit': Women and the National Savings Movement in the Second World War; 14 Contemporary Images and Ideas of the Home Front; Index

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 9781137348975
• 1137348976
• 9781137348999
• 1137348992

OCLC:

898064981