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Promoted ContentHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2017
Experiencing war as the 'enemy other'
by Wendy Ugolini, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Promoted ContentHumanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2013
Civvies
Middle–class men on the English Home Front, 1914–18
by Laura Ugolini, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, 'unmanly' status? ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesMay 2016
Civvies
by Bertrand Taithe, Laura Ugolini, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesNovember 2011
Containing trauma
Nursing work in the First World War
by Christine Hallett, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War. She argues that nurses found meaning in their complex and stressful work by identifying it as a process of 'containing trauma'. Broad in its scope and detailed in its research, the book analyses the work of nurses from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the United States of America. It draws on highly personal writings: letters and diaries drawn from archives and libraries throughout the world. This wide-ranging book explores a range of treatment scenarios, from the Western and Eastern Fronts to the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia and India. It considers both the efforts of nurses to provide physical, emotional and moral containment to their patients, and the work they did to maintain their own physical and emotional integrity. ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesAugust 2012
French crime fiction and the Second World War
by Claire Gorrara, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJune 2016
French children under the Allied bombs, 1940–45
by Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Lindsey Dodd
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesMarch 2007
Contesting home defence
by Penny Summerfield, Bertrand Taithe, Corinna Peniston-Bird, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesAugust 2010
The secret battle
Emotional survival in the great war
by Michael Roper, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
What did home mean to British soldiers and how did it help them to cope with the psychological strains of the Great War? Family relationships lie at the heart of this book. It explores the contribution letters and parcels from home played in maintaining the morale of this largely young, amateur army. And it shows how soldiers, in their turn, sought to adapt domestic habits to the trenches. Pursuing the unconscious clues within a rich collection of letters and memoirs with the help of psychoanalytical ideas, including those formulated by the veteran tank commander Wilfred Bion, this study asks fundamental questions about the psychological resources of this generation of young men. It reveals how the extremities of battle exposed the deepest emotional ties of childhood, and went on marking the post-war domestic lives of those who returned. ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesNovember 2007
Paris and the Commune 1871–78
The politics of forgetting
by Bertrand Taithe, Colette Wilson, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on the streets of Paris in just the final week of the conflict. Colette Wilson identifies a critical blind-spot in French studies and employs new critical approaches to neglected texts, marginalised aspects of the illustrated press, early photography and a selection of novels by Emile Zola. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying France in the nineteenth century from a number of different perspectives war and revolution studies, cultural studies, history and cultural memory, literature, art history, photography, the illustrated press, city studies and human geography. The book will appeal equally to all lovers of Paris who wish to know and understand more about the city's turbulent past. ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesAugust 2016
The People's Armies
A history of the Greek resistance
by Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Spiros Tsoutsoumpis
The people's armies discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance. It is a pioneering history of the men and women who waged the struggle against the axis as members of the armed partisans of ELAS and EDES. Using a wide range of previously unused sources, the book reconstructs daily life in the guerrilla armies and explores the complex reasons that led the partisans to enlist and fight. It also discusses the relations between the guerrillas and the civilian population, and examines how the guerrillas' experience of combat, hardship and loss shaped their understanding of their task and social attitudes. The book makes fascinating reading both for academics and for lay readers who are interested in modern Greek history, military history and the history of the Second World War. ;
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016
War, disability and rehabilitation in Britain
by Julie Anderson, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesJune 2016
Imagining Armenia
by Joanne Laycock, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016
From victory to Vichy
by Bertrand Taithe, Chris Millington, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesNovember 2007
Behind enemy lines
by Juliette Pattinson, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2017
Mobilizing nature
by Chris Pearson, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesOctober 2019
A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War
by Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Spiros Tsoutsoumpis
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesDecember 2014
John Galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the Great War
by Jeffrey Reznick, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Martin Hargreaves
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesMarch 2007
Contesting home defence
by Penny Summerfield, Bertrand Taithe, Corinna Peniston-Bird, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Rebecca Mortimer
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesDecember 2009
John Galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the Great War
by Jeffrey Reznick, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Rebecca Mortimer, Martin Hargreaves
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Trusted PartnerHumanities & Social SciencesNovember 2011
Healing the nation
by Jeffrey Reznick, Bertrand Taithe, Penny Summerfield, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones, Ana Carden-Coyne, Martin Hargreaves