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Material Culture and Modern Conflict

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

Playing in the Ruins

Moshenska, Gabriel

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

Material Culture and Modern Conflict

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

Playing in the Ruins

Material Culture and Modern Conflict: Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

 

"How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings.

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Beschrijving Material Culture and Modern Conflict: Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in history with powerful resonances across global conflicts into the present day.

ISBN
9781138565265
Pagina's
198
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Material Culture and Modern Conflict
NUR
680
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1
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Hardback
Taal
Engels
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Taylor & Francis Ltd

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