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Total War : An Emotional History / edited by Claire Langhamer, Lucy Noakes, and Claudia Siebrecht.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 227.
- Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 227
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society--Europe--History--20th century.
- War and society.
- Collective memory--Social aspects--Europe--20th century.
- Collective memory.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
- Summary:
- Love, grief, hate and fear are among the emotions most immediately associated with the rhetoric, experience and memory of war. Focusing on Europe during and after the two world wars, this volume explores the emotional worlds of those who lived their lives under war's shadow.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Claire Langhamer, Lucy Noakes and Claudia Siebrecht
- Emotions in times of war: private and public, individual and collective / Ute Frevert
- 'Macabre and hilarious' : the emotional life of the civilian gas mask in France during and after the First World War / Susan R. Grayzel
- Little Ruby's hand : young women and the emotional experience of caregiving in Britain after the First World War / Michael Roper
- The tears of 1939 : German women and the emotional archive of the First World War / Claudia Siebrecht
- Wounded pride and petty jealousies : private lives and public diplomacy in Second World War Cairo / Martin Francis
- Communities of feeling : fear, death, and grief in the writing of British servicemen in the Second World War / Lucy Noakes
- 'Astray in a dark forest'? The emotional politicis of reconstruction Britain / Claire Langhamer
- In search of Victor : transnationalism, emotion and war / Joy Damousi.
- Notes:
- "This collection has its origins in a 2014 British Academy Conference at which, as First World War centenary events were unfolding, the history of war and emotions was explored in a wide geographic and chronological framework."--Page xv.
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP5.00 0.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80596-293-0
- 1-80596-489-5
- 0-19-190538-0
- OCLC:
- 1164132577
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