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  • National Service Life Stories

    Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain

    par Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant, Joel Morley ...
    National service was a defining feature for a generation of young men in post-war Britain. Around 2.3 million of them were called up between the end of World War Two and 1963, when conscription ended. However, national service was forgotten almost before it had ended, a process aided subsequently by professional historians who have been reluctant to assess its longer-term influence on British ... En savoir plus

    $102.99 CAD

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  • Imperial nostalgia

    How the British conquered themselves

    par Peter Mitchell ...
    A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Twilight of the Dons

    British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism

    par Colin Kidd ...
    The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often anti-establishment outsiders, the dons of Oxbridge enjoyed secure and even cosy connections with those in power. In Twilight of ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD

  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    par Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... En savoir plus

    $11.59 CAD

  • Queen and country

    Same–sex desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939–45

    par Emma Vickers ...
    Collections series Gender in History
    The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally hostile towards same-sex activity within its ranks. Queen and country also tells a story of selective ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Double Lives

    A History of Working Motherhood

    par Helen McCarthy ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021'Fabulous' - The Times'A milestone in women's history' - Observer'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - HeraldIn Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an un... ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Snakes and Ladders

    The great British social mobility myth

    par Professor Selina Todd ...
    'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, SpectatorPoliticians say social mobility is real... this book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down the social ladder has been a fact of British life for more than a century.Drawing on hundreds of ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    par Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Broken Years

    Australian military history in 1000 books

    par Peter Stanley ...
    What does Australia' s military history reveal about us? In Beyond the Broken Years – fifty years after Bill Gammage' s acclaimed The Broken Years was published – provocative military historian Peter Stanley argues why it' s vital for Australians to understand how our military past has been created, by whom, how and with what consequences. Stanley explores military history and the storytellers – ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Women and the Irish Revolution

    Modifié par Linda Connolly ...
    The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have either played a subsidiary role or no role at all, requires reconsideration. Women and feminists were extremely active in Irish revolutionary causes from 1912 onwards, but ultimately it was the men as revolutionary ‘leaders’ who took all the power, and indeed all the credit, after ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Nine Wartime Lives

    Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self

    par James Hinton ...
    James Hinton uses diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain to re-evaluate the social history of the Second World War, and to reflect on the twentieth-century making of the modern self. These diaries were written by some of the unusually self-reflective and public-spirited people who agreed to write intimate journals about their daily activity for the social research organisation, ... En savoir plus

    $24.79 CAD

  • Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000

    par Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite ...
    Collections series The Past and Present Book Series
    In late twentieth-century England, inequality was rocketing, yet some have suggested that the politics of class was declining in significance, while others argue that class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to 'ordinary' people's narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968-2000, but in changing ways ... En savoir plus

    $91.99 CAD