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Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain

By Gabriel Moshenska

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
1138565261, 9781138565265
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12700721 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
198\199
Time added
2019-05-28 04:53:00

Description

How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings. In their struggles to cope with the fears and upheavals of wartime, with families divided and familiar landscapes lost or transformed, children reimagined and reshaped these material traces of conflict into toys, treasures and playgrounds. This study of the material worlds of wartime childhood offers a unique viewpoint into an extraordinary period in history with powerful resonances across global conflicts into the present day.

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