Home fronts : Britain and the Empire at war, 1939-45 /: Britain and the Empire at war, 1939-45. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mark J. Crowley and Sandra Trudgen Dawson.
• Editors: Crowley, Mark J; Dawson, Sandra Trudgen
• Contents: Introduction. Home fronts and the empire at war / Mark J. Crowley and Sandra Trudgen Dawson -- pt. 1. Consumption on the home front -- British restaurants and the gender politics of the wartime midday meal / Nadja Durbach -- A nutritional economy : the calorie, development and war in mandate Palestine / Sherene Seikaly -- Rubber shortages on Britain's home front / Sandra Trudgen Dawson -- Nation-building and nationalism in Bengali children's literature during the 1940s and 1950s / Nupur Chaudhuri -- pt. 2. The militarized home front -- 'Young blood' and 'the blackout' : love, sex and marriage on the South African home front / Jean P. Smith -- Ceylon's home front during the Second World War / Ashley Jackson -- Nyanza at war : Kenya and the mobilization of Britain's Colonial Empire / Andrew Stewart -- 'Fighting in their ways'? : the civilian man in British culture, 1939-1945 / Linsey Robb -- pt. 3. Technology, danger and waste on the home front -- "The Royal Mail will always get through' : maintaining communications on the home and military front during the Second World War / Mark J. Crowley -- 'National necessity' and 'patriotic duty' : railway publicity in World War II India / Ritika Prasad -- Removing danger : the making of 'dangerous internees' in Australia / Christine Winter -- Bombs and recycling drives : the double threat to books and documents in wartime Britain / Peter Thorsheim.
• Publisher Details: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages)
• Subjects: 940.5341; World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Civilians in war -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Commonwealth countries; Civilians in war -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 20th century; HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century; Civilians in war; Social aspects; Commonwealth countries; Great Britain; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787440487; 1787440486
• Related ISBNs: 9781783272259
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