Sport And The Home Front

Author : Matthew Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000071367
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and the Home Front written by Matthew Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised, marginalised and downplayed, existing in a constant state of tension between notions of normality and exceptionality, routine and disruption, the everyday and the extraordinary. The author argues that sport played an important, yet hitherto neglected, role in maintaining the morale of the British people and providing a reassuring sense of familiarity at a time of mass anxiety and threat. Through the conflict, sport became increasingly regarded as characteristic of Britishness; a symbol of the ‘ordinary’ everyday lives in defence of which the war was being fought. Utilised to support the welfare of war workers, the entertainment of service personnel at home and abroad and the character formation of schoolchildren and young citizens, sport permeated wartime culture, contributing to new ways in which the British imagined the past, present and future. Using a wide range of personal and public records – from diary writing and club minute books to government archives – this book breaks new ground in both the history of the British home front and the history of sport.

Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473891965
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Quiet on the Home Front written by Richard van Emden and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated). The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades. Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have become accustomed to hearing from military veterans of this war. Those interviewed include a survivor of a Zeppelin raid in 1915; a Welsh munitions worker recruited as a girl; and a woman rescued from a bombed school after five days. There are also accounts of rural famine, bereavement, and the effects on families back home—and even the story of a woman who planned to kill her family to save them further suffering.

Author : William L. Bird
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568981406
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Victory written by William L. Bird and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poster - inexpensive, colorful, and immediate - was an ideal medium for delivering messages about Americans' duties on the home front during World War II. Design for Victory presents more than 150 of these stunning images - many never reproduced since their first issue - culled from the collections of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein delve beneath the surface of these colorful graphics, telling the stories behind their production and revealing how posters fulfilled the goals and needs of their creators. The authors describe the history of how specific posters were conceived and received, focusing on the workings of the wartime advertising profession and demonstrating how posters often reflected uneasy relations between labor and management.

Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book V for Victory written by Stan Cohen and published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.

Author : G. Cassano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230246990
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Struggle on the Home Front written by G. Cassano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home/Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household.

Author : Ronald H. Bailey
Publisher : Seafarer Books
ISBN 13 : 9780809424788
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home Front, U.S.A. written by Ronald H. Bailey and published by Seafarer Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James L. Abrahamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Home Front written by James L. Abrahamson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Home Front is a comparative analysis of the economic, political, and social results of America's four principal wars, this study reveals the major issues faced by each wartime administration and sketches the consequences of the mobilization policies adopted. Each conflict occurred in unique circumstances, required varied policies, and produced different effects on American institutions."--Amazon.com.

Author : Craig Allen Cleve
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786418974
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hardball on the Home Front written by Craig Allen Cleve and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country's morale. More than 400 replacement players made their major league debuts between 1943 and 1945, among them Sal Maglie, Andy Pafko, Red Schoendienst and Stan Musial. The author of this book points out that the true story of wartime baseball rests mostly with the players whose careers were not so well remembered or documented. He highlights nine players--Frank Mancuso, Ford Mullen, Ed Carnett, Lee Pfund, George Hausmann, Cy Buker, Bill Lefebvre, Eddie Basinski, and Nick Strincevich--who took the field while the major leaguers were fighting in the war. They share their memories of being called up to play in the majors, and their feelings about providing much needed and much wanted entertainment to thousands of Americans during the war years.

Author : Jeff Obermeyer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601291
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball and the Bottom Line in World War II written by Jeff Obermeyer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II? The sport, like many nonessential industries, struggled to find its place in society during a time of war. The men who ran the game faced government interference and manpower shortages that threatened to shut down their businesses for the duration, and they had to balance the need to show a patriotic front to the public while at the same time protecting their investments. Archival and primary sources provide insight into the perceptions of the major league owners and an understanding of how most of them were able to keep their businesses profitable while the nation fought an enormous two-front war.

Author : Earl R. Beck
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813143705
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Bombs written by Earl R. Beck and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tribute to human resilience under extreme stress, both in response to the terror from the sky and to the sacrifices the Nazis imposed on their people.” —History Under the Bombs tells the story of the civilian population of German cities devastated by Allied bombing in World War II. These people went to work, tried to keep a home (though in many cases it was just a pile of rubble where a house once stood), and attempted to live life as normally as possible amid the chaos of war. Earl Beck also looks at the food and fuel rationing the German people endured and the problems of trying to make a public complaint while living in a totalitarian state. “An easily accessible ‘impressionistic description’ of life in Germany under Allied aerial bombardment . . . this evocative study captures the horror of war for a trapped population.” —Library Journal “The most vivid account available of what it was actually like to live under the bombings.” —Historian “Challenges the contention of Allied commanders that airpower was the ultimate key to victory and that it could have defeated the enemy by itself.” —America “A powerful study.” —American Historical Review “An enlightening, highly readable account of life in the war-ravaged Third Reich.” —Pineville Sun “A description of what it was like to live, work, suffer, and die in wartime Germany.” —The Historian