LEADER 03655oam 2200601I 450 001 9910820072603321 005 20240516201844.0 010 $a1-136-62996-3 010 $a1-283-45958-2 010 $a9786613459589 010 $a1-136-62997-1 010 $a0-203-80289-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203802892 035 $a(CKB)2670000000148348 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC958625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL958625 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10610142 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL345958 035 $a(OCoLC)798530319 035 $a(OCoLC)894227257 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000148348 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritain and World War One /$fAlan G.V. Simmonds 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a326 p. $cill 311 $a0-415-45538-3 311 $a0-415-45539-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Summer's end -- 2. For king and country -- 3. The industry of conflict -- 4. The eclipse of party government -- 5. Workplace women -- 6. Society, family and welfare -- 7. Food, farming and rural society -- 8. A question of propaganda -- 9. War culture -- 10. After rejoicing. 330 $aThe First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other conflict that Britain had hitherto experienced. For the first time, it opened up a Home Front that stretched into all parts of the British polity, society and culture, touching the lives of every citizen regardless of age, gender and class: vegetables were even grown in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Britain and World War One throws attention on these civilians who fought the war on the Home Front. Harnessing recent scholarship, and drawing on original documents, oral testimony and historical texts, this book casts a fresh look over different aspects of British society during the four long years of war. It revisits the early war enthusiasm and the making of Kitchener's new armies; the emotive debates over conscription; the relationships between politics, government and popular opinion; women working in wartime industries; the popular experience of war and the question of social change. This book also explores areas of wartime Britain overlooked by recent histories, including the impact of the war on rural society; the mobilization of industry and the importance of technology; responses to air raids and food and housing shortages; and the challenges to traditional social and sexual mores and wartime culture. Britain and World War One is essential reading for all students and interested lay readers of the First World War. 517 3 $aBritain and World War I 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zGreat Britain 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zGreat Britain$xInfluence 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yGeorge V, 1910-1936 607 $aGreat Britain$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xInfluence. 676 $a940.3/41 686 $a8$2ssgn 700 $aSimmonds$b Alan G. V.$01659332 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820072603321 996 $aBritain and World War One$94013919 997 $aUNINA