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Nine wartime lives : Mass-Observation and the making of the modern self /

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In Nine Wartime Lives, James Hinton uses diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain to re-evaluate the social history of the Second World War, and to reflect on the twentieth-century making of the modern self. These diaries were written by some of the unusually self-reflecti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hinton, James
Corporate Author: Mass-Observation (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 > Psychological aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Great Britain > Biography.
Autonomy (Psychology)
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect psychologique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Psychological aspects
Social aspects
Women
Great Britain
1939-1945
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Nella Last: Nation before husband; 3. Gertrude Glover: Moral guardian; 4. Mary Clayton: Bombed out and keeping going; 5. Eleanor Humphries: Serving genius; 6. Lillian Rogers: Birmingham flaneuse; 7. Ernest van Someren: The good life; 8. Denis Argent: Between the acts; 9. The Waltons: A democratic marriage; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.