Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain. Reconstructing Home, Hardback - Gregory Salter

In this book, Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the period of social and personal reconstruction after the Se...

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period

Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for man...

The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous 'culture wars' since it began in 1947. This book...

Fashioning a new Jerusalem in Austerity Britain

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His ...

Britain at War in Colour showcases 100 of the best rare and original colour images of the Second World War from the IWM photograph collection. Feat...

A superbly illustrated, innovative history of British art, seen from the perspective of the home.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Nicholas Troma...

Pulp Vietnam argues that Cold War-era men's adventure magazines crafted a particular version of martial masculinity that shaped GIs' expectations a...

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In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is...

How rationalities and rites of passage associated with manhood in the white American Heartland are constitutive of racist and heteropatriarchal vio...

Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize the social, raci...

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The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II

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This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire's fie...

Through the narrations of war-injured individuals and MSF humanitarian workers, the book explores healing and rehabilitation process in all its com...

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A compelling, evidence-based narrative for an age of heroes and battles that saw one of the most momentous transformations in British history.Publi...

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Thomas BaudinetteNumber of pages: 262Collection: Michigan Monograph Japanese StudiesPublicati...

The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the remarkable 2017 British general election. ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Isabelle de le (Independent Scholar, Switzerland) CourtIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades fol...

Examines the transformation of the Catalan nation in socio-economic, political and historical terms, and offers an interpretation of the determinan...

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What were the catalysts that motivated Mexican American youth to enlist or readily accept their draft notices in World War II, Korea, or Vietnam? I...

This highly illustrated book tells the heroic story of the air battle, as well asthe Blitz bombing campaign which followed, through photographs, in...

The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II

Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identit...

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Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during ...

Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and loc...

This book charts the history of Australian retail developments as well as examining the social and cultural dimensions of shopping in Australia.Pub...

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The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passe...

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issue...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jussi M. (Professor of International History and Politics, Professor of International History and ...

Description Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the mode...

Civil defence was an integral part of Britain's modern history. Throughout the cold war it was a central response of the British Government to the ...

Publisher: Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingAuthor(s): Martin DerryIllustration(s): Illustrations (some col.)Number of pages: 112Publication date: 20...

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The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxie...

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This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in pos...