Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945

ISBN-13: 9780199273171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 344 str.

Sonya O Rose

Opis

What did it mean to be British during the 'People's War'? Professor Rose uses material from newspapers, diaries, novels and letters to examine popular notions of citizenship on the home front. She shows that what we now mean by 'identity politics' was alive and well in the 1940s and that any singular conception of 'Britishness' was extremely fragile.

Recenzje

More than a decade after its publication, Which People's War? remains a model for students interested in contemporary cultural history, as well as a salutary reminder of the implicit exclusions inherent in any nationalist project