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  • - Orientalism, Ambiguity and Intervention, 1879-1925
    af Joanne Laycock
    213,95 - 1.366,95 kr.

    This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history, when diplomats, scholars and humanitarians engaged with the past, present and future of Armenia. -- .

  • af Kyle Falcon
    1.370,95 kr.

    Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.

  • - Refugees in the Era of the Great War
     
    1.029,95 kr.

    Europe on the move is the first book to address the dramatic and poignant refugee crisis that erupted during the First World War and that enveloped the entire continent. Written by specialists in the field it will appeal to all those who are interested in the era of the First World War and in Europe's first major refugee crisis. -- .

  • - British Civilian Masculinities in the Second World War
    af Linsey Robb, Juliette Pattinson & Arthur McIvor
    972,95 kr.

    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. -- .

  • - Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945-90
     
    1.470,95 kr.

    Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. -- .

  • - The People's Armies
    af Spiros Tsoutsoumpis
    505,95 - 972,95 kr.

    This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters during their fight against the Occupation. -- .

  • - Culture and Memory After the Armistice
     
    279,95 kr.

    Now available in paperback, this study of the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. -- .

  • - Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in Warzones
    af Jane Potter & Carol Acton
    972,95 kr.

    Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps -- .

  • - War, the Body and British Army Recruits, 1939-45
    af Emma Newlands
    1.362,95 kr.

    An examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War -- .

  • - Past Crimes, Present Memories
    af Claire Gorrara
    496,95 - 683,95 kr.

    By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France. -- .

  • - The Politics of Forgetting
    af Colette Wilson
    421,95 - 1.364,95 kr.

    Colette Wilson writes clearly and authoritatively and her original, scholarly and beautifully illustrated book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the Paris Commune, its aftermath in the early years of the Third Republic and French cultural memory overall -- .

  • - Veterans in Inter-War France
    af Chris Millington
    421,95 - 1.364,95 kr.

    Explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans' associations during the interwar years, the Union federale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). -- .

  • - Italian Scottish Experience in World War II
    af Wendy Ugolini
    423,95 - 972,95 kr.

    An original and engaging study which examines the impact of World War Two on the Italian community in Scotland. -- .

  • - Nursing Work in the First World War
    af Christine Hallett
    341,95 kr.

    In this highly original contribution to knowledge about a little-known subject: the history of nursing work, Christine Hallett explores the nature and meaning of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War -- .

  • - Culture and Memory After the Armistice
     
    1.473,95 kr.

    The first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 -- .

  • - Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914-18
    af Laura Ugolini
    581,95 - 972,95 kr.

    Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War -- .

  • - Culture, Thought and Nuclear Conflict, 1945-90
     
    279,95 kr.

    Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. -- .

  • - Emotional Survival in the Great War
    af Michael Roper
    429,95 kr.

    A discussion of anti-corruption advocacy as a global movement with particular emphasis on Russia. -- .

  • - An Oral History
    af Lindsey Dodd
    1.365,95 kr.

  • - The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France
    af Chris Pearson
    348,95 - 1.370,95 kr.

    Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside. -- .

  • - With an Illustrated Selection of His Writings
    af Jeffrey S. Reznick
    420,95 - 1.363,95 kr.

    The most comprehensive study published to date about John Galsworthy's philanthropic support for, and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War. It makes available for the first time in a single edition the most significant of his compositions about the war disabled and examining their value as historical documents. -- .

  • - Food and the Soldiers of the Great War
    af Dr. Rachel Duffett
    343,95 - 972,95 kr.

    Food is fundamental to soldiers' morale and performance and yet to date it has received little attention from historians, who have reiterated army statistics without an investigation of their veracity. . Extensively researched with a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the men's own accounts of lived experience. -- .

  • - 'soul of a Nation'
    af Julie Anderson
    213,95 - 972,95 kr.

    Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. -- .

  • - International, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
     
    1.471,95 kr.

    Bringing together leading historians, this volume offers a vital and timely reassessment of Munich Crisis of 1938 from the point of view of the politicians, the people, and public opinion. It takes into account the profound social, cultural, and psychological effects of the crisis, hitherto neglected aspects of this clash between democracy and dictatorship. -- .

  • - Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions
    af Linda Maynard
    1.369,95 kr.

    A study of the emotional experiences of brothers and sisters in the First World War and its aftermath. Affectionate sibling bonds sustained the war generation both at home and on the front line, providing a lateral perspective on our understanding of domestic and military masculinities and the longevity of wartime grief and commemoration. -- .

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    1.029,95 kr.

    This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. It is the first publication to capture a new form of naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. -- .

  • - Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War
    af Juliette Pattinson
    338,95 - 1.364,95 kr.

    Behind Enemy Lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War. -- .

  • - Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam
    af Duy Lap Nguyen
    423,95 - 1.366,95 kr.

    The unimagined community presents a wide-ranging study of South Vietnemese culture, from political philosophy and psychological warfare to popular culture and film. The book pursues the provocative claim that in its early phase the conflict was not an anti-communist crusade, but a struggle between two different forms of anticolonial communism. -- .

  • - Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War
    af Penny Summerfield & Corinna Peniston-Bird
    229,95 - 1.267,95 kr.

    Offering a new contribution to debates about the British home front in WWII, this book addresses the way the Home Guard has been remembered in popular culture through examination of key films, as well as TV's Dad's Army. The authors also explore the personal memories of individuals who served in the Home Guard.

  • - Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain During the Great War
    af Jeffrey S. Reznick
    334,95 - 1.359,95 kr.

    This study of caregiving during WW I looks anew at life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western front. Using a variety of literary, artistic, and architectural evidence, Dr Reznick shows that Britain's 'generation of 1914' was a group bound as much by comradeship of healing as by comradeship of the trenches. -- .