1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001984479707536

Autore

Bonito Oliva, Achille

Titolo

Antipatia : l'arte contemporanea / Achille Bonito Oliva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Feltrinelli, 1987

ISBN

8807100770

Descrizione fisica

173 p., [8] c. di tav. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Collana

Campi del Sapere / Feltrinelli

Disciplina

709.04

Soggetti

Arte

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996543166903316

Autore

Mackay Robert <1940->

Titolo

Half the battle : civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War / / Robert Mackay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-84779-535-8

1-5261-3742-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Disciplina

941.084

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and



what factors were important to it? In this important work, Robert Mackay offers a robust rejection of recent contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short of the favourable picture presented at the time and in hundreds of books and films ever since.  Whilst acknowledging that some negative attitudes and behaviours existed - panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering, looting, absenteeism and strikes - the author argues that these involved a very small minority of the population.  In fact, most people behaved well, and this should be the real measure of civilian morale, rather than the failings of the few who behaved badly.This book shows that before the War the official prognosis was pessimistic but that measures to bolster morale were taken nevertheless, in particular with regard to protection against air raids. An examination of a range of indicative factors concludes that morale fluctuated but was in the main good, right until the end of the War.  In explaining this phenomenon, due credit is accorded to government policies for the maintenance of morale, but special emphasis is given to the 'invisible' chain of patriotic feeling that held the nation together during its time of trial.This book will give students of the Second World War new insights into how and why ordinary people coped with the intolerable.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009043320403321

Titolo

Revue d'écologie alpine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Grenoble, : Laboratoire de biologie alpine

ISSN

1166-9632

Disciplina

574.5264

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico