Lucy Noakes

Dying for the nation

Death, grief and bereavement in Second World War Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Cultural History of Modern War
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087592
• ISBN-10: 0719087597
• Artikelnr.: 57469229

Autorenporträt

Lucy Noakes is the Rab Butler Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: death, grief and bereavement in wartime Britain 1 Shadowing:
death, grief and mourning before the Second World War 2 Feeling: the
emotional economy of interwar Britain 3 Planning: imagining and planning
for death in wartime 4 Coping: belief and agency in wartime 5 Dying: death
and destruction of the body in war 6 Burying: the disposal of the war's
dead 7 Grieving: bereavement, grief, and the emotional labour of wartime 8
Remembering: remembering and commemorating the dead of war Conclusion: the
personal and the political Bibliography