Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914-18 - Couverture rigide

Ugolini, Laura

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0719086019 ISBN 13 : 9780719086014

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, 'unmanly' status?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laura Ugolini is Reader in History at the University of Wolverhampton

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719086019
• ISBN 13: 9780719086014
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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