Nine wartime lives : Mass-Observation and the making of the modern self
Hinton, James2010
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In this work, 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 20th-century making of the modern self.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Collation:
vi, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Nella Last : nation before husband -- Gertrude Glover : moral guardian -- Mary Clayton : bombed out and keeping going -- Eleanor Humphries : serving genius -- Lillian Rogers : Birmingham flaneuse -- Ernest van Someren : the good life -- Denis Argent : between the acts -- The Waltons : a democratic marriage.
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9780199574667 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'341'0922940.53410922
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English
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BRN:
1036868
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