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Author Pennell, Catriona

Title A kingdom united : popular responses to the outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland / Catriona Pennell
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 308 pages)
Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures, and Map""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Abbreviations Used in Text""; ""List of Abbreviations Used in Notes""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Outbreak of War, July to August""; ""2. The National Cause""; ""3. The Enemy""; ""4. Encountering Violence: Imagined and Real""; ""5. A Volunteer War""; ""6. John Bull�s Other Island""; ""7. Settling Into War""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix I: Dramatis Personae""; ""Appendix II: Statistical Breakdown of 441 Witnesses Featured in Dramatis Personae""
""Appendix III: Location of Utilized Diaries, Memoirs, and Journals (Published and Unpublished)""""Appendix IV: Anti-German Riots and Western Military Events, October 1914""; ""Sources and Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Summary In this documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores public opinion of the time and successfully challenges the myth of British 'war enthusiasm'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index
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Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Public opinion
World War, 1914-1918 -- Ireland -- Public opinion
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Public opinion
Great Britain
Ireland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191624377
0191624373
9780191738777
0191738778