Susan R. Grayzel

At Home and under Fire (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With the advent of air warfare, civilians far removed from traditional battle zones became a direct target of war rather than a group shielded from its impact. This is a study of how British civilians experienced and came to terms with aerial warfare during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British responses to the various real and imagined war threats of the 1920s and 1930s, including the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War and, ultimately, the Blitz itself. The processes by which different constituent bodies of the British nation responded to the arrival of air power reveal the particular role that gender played in defining civilian participation in modern war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139209458
• Artikelnr.: 52957552

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.