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UNINA9910462037803321 |
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Mawer Granville Allen <1919-1943.> |
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Diary of a Spitfire Pilot [[electronic resource] /] / Granville Allen Mawer |
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Dural Delivery Centre, N.S.W., : Rosenberg Pub., 2011 |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Fighter pilots - Australia |
Spitfire (Fighter plane) |
World War, 1939-1945 |
World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, Australian |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; Wings; Atlantic Convoy; Malan's Mongrels; Hurrybirds; Nightfighter; Love and War; Sweeping the Channel; A Dornier at Dieppe; Officer and Gentleman; Home for Christmas?; Top End Transit; Zeros Over Darwin; Going South; Unserviceable; EPILOGUE; Legacy; INDEX |
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Allen Mawer's diary is a candid and sometimes disconcerting record of conquests in the air and on the ground. It recounts the highs and lows of his war. From 1941 when, aged 21, he hunted the Hun over the English Channel and experienced the perils of aerial combat and the hazards of wartime romance. To 1943 when, living in a 'swamp that pretends to be an airstrip' south of Darwin, the Japanese flew over so infrequently he was in danger of going troppo. Allen was killed over Darwin at the end of the war. His diary offers a poignant insight into the human cost of armed conflict. |
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UNINA9910669802003321 |
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McDonald Tom |
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Social media in rural China : social networks and moral frameworks / / Tom McDonald |
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London : , : UCL Press, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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China Rural conditions |
China Social conditions 20th century |
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1. Introduction and field site: down to the countryside -- 2. The social media landscape: visibility and economy -- 3. Visual postings: idealising family-love, marriage and 'little treasures' -- 4. Relationships: circles of friends, encounters with strangers -- 5. Moral accumulation: collecting credits on social media -- 6. Broader relations: the family, the state and social media -- 7. Conclusion: circles and strangers, media moralities and 'the Chinese internet' -- Appendix. Methodology. |
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China's distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation's vast number of internet users, but has China's countryside been 'left behind' in this communication revolution? Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experience. Throughout his ground-breaking study, McDonald argues that social media allows rural people to extend and transform their social relationships by deepening already existing connections with friends known through their school, work or village, while also experimenting with completely new forms of relationships through online interactions with strangers, particularly when looking for love and romance. By juxtaposing these seemingly opposed relations, rural social media users are able to use these technologies to |
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understand, capitalise on and challenge the notions of morality that underlie rural life. |
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