Hinton, James.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index.
- Nella Last : nation before husband — Gertrude Glover : moral guardian — Mary Clayton : bombed out and keeping going — Eleanor Humphries : serving genius — Lillian Rogers : Birmingham flaneuse — Ernest van Someren : the good life — Denis Argent : between the acts — The Waltons : a democratic marriage.
- In this work, 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 20th-century making of the modern self.
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)
- Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686
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