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Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914-18
Laura Ugolini
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Description for Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914-18
Paperback. Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWN; JFSC; JFSJ2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses ... Read more
The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cultural History of Modern War
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526116666
SKU
V9781526116666
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Ref
99-15
About Laura Ugolini
Laura Ugolini is Reader in History at the University of Wolverhampton -- .
Reviews for Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914-18
Ugolini clearly identifies the overwhelming importance of the domestic to British masculine identities of the era Laura Ugolini breaks new ground in her book Civvies by examining the experience of English middle-class men who remained at home during the war.
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