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Agency and Locality in the London Blitz / / by Darren Bryant
| Agency and Locality in the London Blitz / / by Darren Bryant |
| Autore | Bryant Darren |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 940.54/2121 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - History
Great Britain - History World War, 1939-1945 History, Modern Human ecology - History Urban History History of Britain and Ireland History of World War II and the Holocaust Modern History Environmental History |
| ISBN |
3-031-50985-4
9783031509858 3031509854 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction and Historiography -- Preamble -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Tip and Run Raids: 1943 -- Little Blitz: 1944 -- V-Weapons: 1944–1945 -- Historiography Review -- Critique of Historiography: An Absence of Locality -- Historiographical Themes: Home Front Studies -- Historiographical Themes: The Myth of the Blitz -- Shaping Wartime Experience: Metropolitan Differentials -- Class -- Gender -- Race -- Shaping Wartime Experience: The Agency of Locality -- Local Area Analysis -- The Six London Boroughs -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- Applying a Thematic Approach -- 2 Planning for War: London and the Localities -- Pre-War Fears -- Planning for War: Central Government -- Planning for War: Regional and County Level -- Planning for War: Local Authorities -- Metropolitan London: Finsbury -- Metropolitan London: Bermondsey -- Metropolitan London: Kensington -- Suburban Essex: East Ham -- Suburban Surrey: Croydon -- Suburban Middlesex: Acton -- 3 Main London Blitz Local Response: Metropolitan London -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 4 Main London Blitz Local Response: The Suburbs -- Air Raids -- Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940 -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Shelters -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Homelessness: Rest Centres -- Eve of the Main London Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- Communal Feeding -- Eve of the MainLondon Blitz -- Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941 -- 5 Post-Blitz London: The Local Response -- Tip and Run Raids 1943 -- Little Blitz 1944 -- V-Weapons 1944–1945 -- 6 Local Response: Conclusions. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831020303321 |
Bryant Darren
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| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Blitz and its legacy : wartime destruction to post-war reconstruction / / edited by Mark Clapson, Peter J. Larkham
| The Blitz and its legacy : wartime destruction to post-war reconstruction / / edited by Mark Clapson, Peter J. Larkham |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Disciplina | 940.54/2121 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ClapsonMark
LarkhamP. J <1960-> (Peter J.) |
| Soggetto topico |
World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, German
Bombing, Aerial - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 20th century World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations World War, 1939-1945 - Destruction and pillage Bombing, Aerial - Social aspects - History - 20th century Reconstruction (1939-1951) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-351-89389-0
1-138-27045-8 1-315-24105-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. The Blitz, its experiences, its consequences / Mark Clapson and Peter J. Larkham -- 2. La ville eventree : or, how bombing turned the city inside out / Lindsey Dodd -- 3. Holiday camps, castles and stately homes : the residential option for the evacuation of disabled children during World War II / Sue Wheatcroft -- 4. A service forged in the flames : the Blitz, wartime fire-fighting and the National Fire Service / Shane Ewen -- 5. Between destruction and reconstruction : London's debris clearance and repair organisation, 1939-1945 / Robin Woolven -- 6. The people's peace : the myth of wartime unity and public consent for town planning / Susanne Cowan -- 7. Reconstruction constraints : political and economic realities / Catherine Flinn -- 8. Destruction and dispersal : the Blitz and the 'break-up' of working-class London / Mark Clapson -- 9. Tradition and modernity : architecture in Japan after Hiroshima / Neil Jackson -- 10. Reconstruction civic authority in post-war Germany / Jeff M. Diefendorf -- 11. Bold planning, mixed experiences : the diverse fortunes of post-war Birmingham / David Adams and Peter J. Larkham -- 12. Planning the reconstruction of war-damaged Plymouth, 1941-1961 : devising and defending a modernisation agenda / Stephen Essex and Mark Brayshay -- 13. Destruction, revival and reconstruction across Alsace and Lorraine, 1939-1960 / Hugh Clout -- 14. Problems of blitz reconstruction in Japan : the case of Sendai / Junichi Hasagawa. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154977503321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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