Rachelle H. Saltzman

A lark for the sake of their country

The 1926 General Strike volunteers in folklore and memory

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Produktbeschreibung

A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in Great Britain's 1926 General Strike. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780719096761
• ISBN-10: 0719096766
• Artikelnr.: 41416578

Autorenporträt

Rachelle Hope Saltzman is Executive Director of the Oregon Folklife Network at the University of Oregon

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction: folklore, memory, and the volunteers of 1926 2.
Building Jerusalem: The General Strike as social drama 3. Social
distinctions, social actions among the upper and middle classes 4. Fides
est servanda: keeping the faith 5. Images of the volunteers: media versus
memory 6. Humours of the Great Strike 7. The volunteers' farewell: closing
rituals, genteel ironies 8. From ethos to mythos: the General Strike and
Britishness 9. 1926 and all that . . . : Britishness and the volunteers
Bibliography Index