| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Cultural history of modern war |
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Cultural history of modern war.
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| Contents |
Introduction: death, grief and bereavement in wartime Britain -- Shadowing: death, grief and mourning before the Second World War -- Feeling: the emotional economy of interwar Britain -- Planning: imagining and planning for death in wartime -- Coping: belief and agency in wartime -- Dying: death and destruction of the body in war -- Burying: the disposal of the war's dead -- Grieving: bereavement, grief and the emotional labour of wartime -- Remembering: remembering and commemorating the dead of war -- Conclusion: the personal and the political |
| Summary |
Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones, but to the state, tasked with managing the deaths of its citizens in conflict |
| Analysis |
Bereavement |
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Britain |
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Burial |
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Death |
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Dying |
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Emotions |
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Grief |
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History |
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Remembrance |
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Second World War |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Death
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Burial -- Great Britain
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Burial
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Social aspects
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Soldiers -- Death
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526135650 |
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1526135655 |
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9781526135667 |
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1526135663 |
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