Susan R. Grayzel

At Home and Under Fire

Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates how the legacy of Britain's first air raids helped prepare civilians for the Second World War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781107679412
• ISBN-10: 1107679419
• Artikelnr.: 40454949

Autorenporträt

Susan Grayzel is the author of Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999), which was awarded the 2000 British Council Prize of the North American Conference of British Studies, and Women and the First World War (2002). She co-edited Gender, Labor, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain with Philippa Levine, published in 2009. Currently, Grayzel is a Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Modern war and the militarization of domestic life; 2. Destroying the
innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914-16; 3. Redefining the
battlezone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917-18; 4. Writing
and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the
air raid in interwar Britain; 5. Inventing civil defense: imagining and
planning for the war to come; 6. Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts
to remove the threat of air raids; 7. Facing the future of air power:
responding to interwar air raids; 8. Preparing the public for the next war:
the expansion of air raid precautions; 9. Protecting the innocent: gas
masks and the domestication of air raid precautions; 10. Responding to the
air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from Munich to the Blitz;
11. Representing the new air war: morale and the domestication of the air
raid in wartime popular culture; 12. Conclusion: air raids and the
domestication of modern war.