Veterans of the First World War

Ex-Servicemen and Ex-Servicewomen in Post-War Britain and Ireland
Herausgeber: Swift, David; Wilkinson, Oliver

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume synthesises the latest scholarship on First World War veterans in post-war Britain and Ireland, investigating the topic through its political, social and cultural dynamics. It examines the post-war experiences of those men and women who served and illuminates the nature of the post-war society for which service had been given. Complicating the homogenising tendency in existing scholarship it offers comparison of the experiences of veterans in different regions of Britain, including perspectives drawn from Ireland. Further nuance is offered by the assessment of the experiences of ex-servicewomen alongside those of ex-servicemen, such focus deeping understanding into the gendered specificities of post-war veteran activities and experiences. Moreover, case studies of specific cohorts of veterans are offered, including focus on disabled veterans and ex-prisoners of war. In these regards the collection offers vital updates to existing scholarship while bringing important new departures and challenges to the current interpretive frameworks of veteran experiences in post-war Britain and Ireland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780367174620
• ISBN-10: 0367174626
• Artikelnr.: 55398402

Autorenporträt

David Swift is the Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellow at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Oliver Wilkinson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction British Veterans after the First World War
David Swift & Oliver Wilkinson
Chapter 1. The Deep Roots of The British Legion: The Emergence of First
World War British Veterans' Organisations
Mike Hally
Chapter 2. Ex-servicemen and the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families
Association, 1919-21
Paul Huddie
Chapter 3. Between Workers and Soldiers: The Relationship between the
Labour Party and Ex-servicemen after the First World War
Marcus Morris
Chapter 4. 'A Fighting Man and a Thinking Man': The British Left,
Ex-Servicemen, and Working-Class Culture, 1914-1924
David Swift
Chapter 5. Revolution, Ex-Servicemen, and the Cork Branch of the National
Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers, 1918-21
John Borgonovo
Chapter 6. 'It's up to you now to fight for your own country': Ireland's
Great War Veterans in the War of Independence, 1919-21
Steven O'Connor
Chapter 7. 'Still in the Ranks of the Old Corps, Though Not on Active
Service': Women's Veteran Organisations in Interwar Britain.
Krisztina Robert
Chapter 8. Paternalism and Prosthetics: Life for Disabled Veterans and
Their Families on a Post-War Settlement
Martin Purdy
Chapter 9. Wounded in a Mentionable Place: The (In)visibility of the
Disabled Ex-serviceman in Inter-war Britain
Jessica Meyer
Chapter 10. Ex-Prisoners of War, 1914-18: Veteran Association, Assimilation
and Disassociation After the First World War
Oliver Wilkinson
Bibliography
Index