Nine wartime lives : Mass-Observation and the making of the modern self /
In Nine Wartime Lives, 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-reflecti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Nella Last: Nation before husband; 3. Gertrude Glover: Moral guardian; 4. Mary Clayton: Bombed out and keeping going; 5. Eleanor Humphries: Serving genius; 6. Lillian Rogers: Birmingham flaneuse; 7. Ernest van Someren: The good life; 8. Denis Argent: Between the acts; 9. The Waltons: A democratic marriage; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.