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Gender, Labour, War and Empire Essays on Modern Britain
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A lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-rac...
A lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization.
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- Creator
- by Philippa Levine, Susan R. Grayzel
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 1st ed. 2009
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9786612277580, 1349356123, 9780230521193, 0230521193, 1282277588, 0230582923
- OCLC
- ocn441853833, ocn233635140
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Remaking the British working class : Sonya Rose and feminist history / Dennis Dworkin -- In search of free labour : Trinidad and the abolition of the British slave trade / James Epstein -- Race and the regulation of prostitution : comparing public health in the U.S. and Greater Britain / Philippa Levine -- The colonial actress : empire, modernity and the exotic in twentieth-century London / Angela Woollacott -- British feminism in the Second World War / Harold L. Smith -- "Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime" : British Vogue's responses to the Second World War / Becky E. Conekin -- "Fighting for the idea of home life" : Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American representations of domestic morale / Susan R. Grayzel -- Film and the popular memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950-1959 / Penny Summerfield -- Men of the Royal Air Force, the cultural memory of the Second World War and the twilight of the British Emprie / Martin Francis -- Disturbing the people's peace : patriotism and "respectable" racism in British responses to Rhodesian independence / Alice Ritscherle -- "Would you let your daughter marry a Negro?" Race and sex in 1950s Britain / Elizabeth Buettner -- How is the national past imagined? National sentimentality, true feeling and the "heritage film", 1980-1995 / Geoff Eley -- Afterword to Gender, labour, war and empire / Laura L. Frader
Subjects
- Sociology.
- Great Britain—History.
- Europe—History.
- History, Modern.
- Social history.
- Civilization—History.
- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
- Great Britain -- Race relations -- History.
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations.