2014, ISBN: 9781107702264

What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account… More...

What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic o..., What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic of volunteerism and the rhetoric of sacrifice in debates over where the burdens of war should fall as well as the influence of religious ideas on wartime culture. As the war drew to a climax and tensions about the distribution of sacrifices threatened to tear society apart, he shows how victory and the processes of commemoration helped create a fiction of a society united in grief. Productinformatie: Taal: Engels; Formaat: ePub met kopieerbeveiliging (DRM) van Adobe; Kopieerrechten: Het kopiëren van (delen van) de pagina's is niet toegestaan ; Geschikt voor: Alle e-readers te koop bij bol.com (of compatible met Adobe DRM). Telefoons/tablets met Google Android (1.6 of hoger) voorzien van bol.com boekenbol app. PC en Mac met Adobe reader software; ISBN10: 1107702267; ISBN13: 9781107702264; Product breedte: 152 mm; Product hoogte: 19 mm; Product lengte: 229 mm; , Engels | Ebook | 2014, Geschiedenis en politiek, Militaire geschiedenis, Eerste Wereldoorlog, Geschiedenis en politiek, Continent - Europa, Groot-Brittannië, Geschiedenis en politiek, Militaire geschiedenis, Meer militaire geschiedenis, Geschiedenis en politiek, Moderne geschiedenis (per eeuw), Moderne geschiedenis - 20e eeuw, Cambridge University Press<

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What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account… More...

What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic o What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic of volunteerism and the rhetoric of sacrifice in debates over where the burdens of war should fall as well as the influence of religious ideas on wartime culture. As the war drew to a climax and tensions about the distribution of sacrifices threatened to tear society apart, he shows how victory and the processes of commemoration helped create a fiction of a society united in grief. History, Nonfiction, The Last Great War~~ Adrian Gregory~~History~~Nonfiction~~9781107702264, en, The Last Great War, Adrian Gregory, 9781107702264, Cambridge University Press, 10/16/2008, , , , Cambridge University Press, 10/16/2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781107702264

British Society and the First World War, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of… More...

British Society and the First World War, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic of volunteerism and the rhetoric of sacrifice in debates over where the burdens of war should fall as well as the influence of religious ideas on wartime culture. As the war drew to a climax and tensions about the distribution of sacrifices threatened to tear society apart, he shows how victory and the processes of commemoration helped create a fiction of a society united in grief. [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781107702264

British Society and the First World War, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, [PU: Cambridge University Press], [ED: 1], Cambridge University Press, 2008