English Landed Society In The Great War

Author : Edward Bujak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472592170

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English Landed Society in the Great War by Edward Bujak Pdf

The extent to which the Great War impacted upon English landed society is most vividly recalled in the loss of young heirs to ancient estates. English Landed Society in the Great War considers the impact of the war on these estates. Using the archives of Country Life, Edward Bujak examines the landed estate that flourished in England. In doing so, he explores the extent to which the wartime state penetrated into the heartlands of the landed aristocracy and gentry, and the corrosive effects that the progressive and systematic militarization of the countryside had on the authority of the squire. The book demonstrates how the commitment of landowners to the defence of an England of home and beauty - an image also adopted in wartime propaganda - ironically led to its transformation. By using the landed estate to examine the transition from Edwardian England to modern Britain, English Landed Society in the Great War provides a unique lens through which to consider the First World War and its impact on English society.

Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317866152

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The Great War by Ian F. W. Beckett Pdf

The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.

Author : Michael J. K. Walsh,Andrekos Varnava
Publisher : Routledge Studies in First World War History
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1138330124

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The Great War and the British Empire by Michael J. K. Walsh,Andrekos Varnava Pdf

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable.¿ It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.

Author : Adrian Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521450379

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The Last Great War by Adrian Gregory Pdf

A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.

Author : Gerard J. De Groot
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037786947

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Blighty by Gerard J. De Groot Pdf

As well as incorporating the latest scholarship, he makes rich, and often very moving, use of primary sources - newspapers, poetry (both high and low), literature, memoirs and letters - to illuminate the attitudes of society at all its levels, not merely the elite and the articulate. He reveals the extent to which the dominant social force in Britain during the war was not change but continuity.

Author : Ian Frederick William Beckett
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015050539629

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The Great War, 1914-1918 by Ian Frederick William Beckett Pdf

Author : Robert Tombs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101874776

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The English and Their History by Robert Tombs Pdf

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history. The English have come a long way from those first precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today’s England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity. Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly embarking on a new chapter. The English and Their History, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division and also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger.

Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002615867

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English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson Pdf

Author : Arthur Marwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0333548477

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The Deluge by Arthur Marwick Pdf

Describes life on the home front, analyzing the social changes that made Britain of the 1920s a vastly different place from the Britain that went to war in 1914. The new edition contains an introductory essay on War and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Britain, in which the author, in the light of the most recent research, summarizes his latest reflections.

Author : Michael J. K. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1315557509

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The Great War and the British Empire by Michael J. K. Walsh Pdf

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.

Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907

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Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 by G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries Pdf

Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.

Author : A. F. Pollard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368363567

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A Short History of the Great War by A. F. Pollard Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-18
Category : England
ISBN : 0415412854

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English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century by F. M. L. Thompson Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Frederick George Scott
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398817654

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The Great War as I Saw It by Frederick George Scott Pdf

'May the eyes of Canada never be blind to that glorious light which shines upon our young national life from the deeds of those "who counted not their lives dear unto themselves"'. When World War I broke out in the summer of 1914, the Canadian chaplain Frederick George Scott volunteered for service despite his fears. He spent four long years in the trenches on the western front, where he developed close bonds with his fellow soldiers and sought to maintain his faith while the world around him collapsed into chaos. In evocative language befitting his background as a poet, Scott lays bare the horrors of modern warfare. Filled with heart-wrenching descriptions and tragic detail, The Great War as I Saw It is a powerful meditation on the Canadian experience during World War I and an important look into the life of the ordinary soldier.

Author : Daphne Read,Gus Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:B3489263

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The Great War and Canadian Society by Daphne Read,Gus Richardson Pdf