Juliette Pattinson, Arthur Mcivor, Linsey Robb

Men in reserve

British civilian masculinities in the Second World War

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Produktbeschreibung

Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781526100696
• ISBN-10: 152610069X
• Artikelnr.: 47328030

Autorenporträt

Juliette Pattinson is Reader in Modern History at the University of Kent Arthur McIvor is Professor in Social History and Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde Linsey Robb is Senior Lecturer in History at Teesside University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Men in reserve: recovering the civilian man 2. Raising an 'industrial
army': the policy of reservation in the First and Second World Wars 3.
'Making a contribution to the war effort': reactions to reserved status,
masculinity and the military 4. Grafters not shirkers: reserved men at work
5. Bodies on the line: risk, health and manliness 6. Outside the factory
gates: reserved life on the home front 7. Forgotten: the missing legacy of
Britain's reserved occupations Concluding thoughts Index