The Great War

Localities and Regional Identities
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5652-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten

The First World War was one of the prime motors of social change in modern British history. Culture and technology at all levels were transformed. The growing impact of the state, the introduction of modern democracy and change in political allegiance affected most aspects of the lives of UK citizens.

Whilst most of the current centenary interest focuses on military aspects of the conflict, this volume considers how these fundamental changes varied from locality to locality within Britain’s Home Front. Taken together, did they drastically alter the long-established importance of regional variations within British society in the early twentieth century? Was there a common national response to these unprecedented events, or did strong regional identities cause significant variations? The series of case studies presented in this volume – ranging geographically and by topic – detail how communities coped with the war’s outbreak, its upheavals, its unprecedented mass mobilization on all fronts, and its unforeseen longevity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mansfield, Nick

Horner, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Mansfield spent over thirty years working in museums including twenty-one as director of the People’s History Museum in Manchester. He is the author of English Farmworkers and Local Patriotism, 1900–1930 (2001), Buildings of the Labour Movement (2013) and over forty journal articles. He is Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire, and is currently writing a book on work, class, politics and the nineteenth-century British military.

Craig Horner has published on Edwardian motoring and society. He is co-editor of the Manchester Region History Review and book reviews editor of the Journal of Transport History. From 2015, he will take on the editorship of Aspects of Motoring History, the journal of the Society of Automotive Historians of Britain.