| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 125 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"Mechanical human beasts" : the experience of killing / Phillip Booth ; Kieran Hull ; Daniel Turner ; Konrad Wells-Corp -- Pals in arms : homosociability, hegemonic masculinity and the Great War / Jenny Cook ; Ashton Cunningham ; Leanne Jones ; Matthew Wood -- Beyond War Horse : animals and total war / Vicki Fordham ; Sophie Birch ; Calvin Smith ; Ryan Khaira -- "Tickling men to war" : the white feather campaign / Victoria Hammonds ; Tracey Handley ; James Malley ; Rebecca Sturgess -- Life in Ruhleben Camp : Edwardian Britain in microcosm / Christopher Batten ; Jason Pickering ; Ellie Walsh ; Nathan Willcox -- Teddies, toy soldiers and the militarisation of playtime / Lydia Mcgraw ; Helen Wright ; Jade Kelly-Smith -- Beyond Franz Ferdinand and Belgium : Britain's real war aims / Elliot Chapman ; Charlie Bradley ; Leigh-Ann Harris ; Bradley Warren -- Trouble in paradise : the West Indoes at war / Jorden Crawford ; Alexandra Kempson ; Fern Pithers ; Lewis Wale -- Australia : a nation made in war? Defiance, disappointment and determination / Adam al-Safi ; Shelby Squire ; Sophie Philips -- Requiem : Foulds, Beaverbrook and a "British" festival of remembrance / Anthony Butterworth ; Thomas Debaere ; Laura Jackson ; Rickesh Patel -- "Biggles sorts it out!" Captain W.E. Johns and the reinvention of the heroic ideal for British boys / Beth Harris ; Dan Dunning ; David Pugh ; Laura Winspear -- Crisis of faith? C.S. Lewis, religion and the First World War / Nichola Tonks ; Katherine Sykes |
| Summary |
This book considers the diversity of the experiences and legacies of the First World War, looking at the actions of those who fought, those who remained at home and those who returned from the arena of war. It examines Edwardian ideals of gender and how these shaped social expectations of the roles to be played by men and women with regards to the national cause. It looks at men's experiences of combat and killing on the Western Front, exploring the ways in which masculine gender ideals and male social relationships moulded their experience of battle. It shows how the women of the controversia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 9, 2017) |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Social aspects
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Larsen, Ruth M., editor.
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Whitehead, Ian R., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781527505261 |
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152750526X |
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