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Examines the'home front'war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories.There is increasing interest in the'home front'during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colonial territory, neglecting the fact that Britain controlled a large Empire and that there were numerous'home fronts', each of which contributed greatly to the war effort but each in slightly different ways. This book considers'home fronts'from an overall imperial perspective and in a broad array of territories - Australia, India, South Africa, Ceylon, Palestine and Kenya aswell as Britain. It examines many aspects of wartime life - food, communications, bombing, volunteering, internment and more, and discusses important themes including identity, gender, inequality, and the relationship between civilians and the state. Besides case studies outlining the detail of the situation in different territories and in different areas of life, the book asse

Author

Mark J. Crowley; Sandra Trudgen Dawson

Publisher

The Boydell Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783272259

Subjects

History, Humanities