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Record Nr.

UNINA9910316451703321

Autore

Moshenska Gabriel

Titolo

Material cultures of childhood in Second World War Britain / / Gabriel Moshenska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2019

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2019

ISBN

9781351345507

1351345508

9781315122946

1315122944

9781351345514

1351345516

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Material culture and modern conflict

Classificazione

HIS000000HIS015000HIS027100

Disciplina

940.5341083

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Children - Great Britain

World War, 1939-1945

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

Material culture - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Children - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 20th century

War and society - Great Britain - History - 20th century

HISTORY / General

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain

HISTORY / Military / World War II

Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index,

Nota di contenuto

Gas masks -- Collecting shrapnel -- Air raid shelters -- Bombsites -- Aircraft down to earth.

Sommario/riassunto

"How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out



buildings. In their struggles to cope with the fears and upheavals of wartime, with families divided and familiar landscapes lost or transformed, children reimagined and reshaped these material traces of conflict into toys, treasures and playgrounds. This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in history with powerful resonances across global conflicts into the present day"--