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British Culture and the First World War: Social History in Perspective

Autor George Robb
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 dec 2014
The First World War has left its imprint on British society and the popular imagination to an extent almost unparalleled in modern history. Its legacy of mass death, mechanized slaughter, propaganda, and disillusionment swept away long-standing romanticized images of warfare, and continues to haunt the modern consciousness.Focusing on the lives of ordinary Britons, George Robb's engaging new study seeks to comprehend what it meant for an entire society to undergo the tremendous shocks and demands of total war; how it attempted to make sense of the conflict, explain it to others, and deal with the war's legacies.British Culture and the First World War- examines the war's impact on ideologies of race, class and gender, the government's efforts to manage news and to promote patriotism, the role of the arts and sciences, and the commemoration of the war in the decades since- Synthesizes much of the best and most recent scholarship on the social and cultural history of the war.- Reclaims a great deal of neglected or forgotten popular cultural sources such as films, cartoons, juvenile literature and pulp fiction.Compact but comprehensive, this accessible and refreshing text is essential reading for anyone interested in British society and culture during the turbulent years of the First World War.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137307507
ISBN-10: 1137307501
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 6 images, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Seria Social History in Perspective

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Examines a great deal of material on popular culture (mass market fiction, cinema, popular songs, cartoons, advertisements, juvenile literature, etc.) that has been little studied by historians

Notă biografică

George Robb is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Realities of Modern Warfare 2. Class, Labor, and State Control 3. Gender, Sex, and Sexuality 4. Nation, Race, and Empire 5. Propaganda and Censorship 6. Art and Literature 7. Popular Culture 8. Remembering and Memorializing the War Notes Further Reading Index.