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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Home Front"”.
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
While British food policy during the Second World War was a resounding success, it relied on and reinforced traditional gender roles. An equal shares model for food control provided a sense of national solidarity, but housewives were still represented as inferior to men. <p>This thesis examines …
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"Indignities, Wrongs, and Outrages": The Home Front in Kentucky During the Civil War
… history. "Indignities, Wrongs, and Outrages: The Homefront In Kentucky During The Civil War" attempts to apply the methods of the "new social historians" to the era of the American Civil War, centering on the homefront by examining in detail its impact on the everyday lives of Kentuckians. The …
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The Armor of Democracy: Volunteerism on the Home Front in World War II California
This paper is an in-depth study on the role of Home Front Volunteerism in California during World War II. It argues that Volunteerism was integral to America’s eventual victory. This paper fills a gap in historical writings on World War II and shows that Volunteerism is a topic worthy of study. …
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Heroes on the home front : heroism and virtue in post-9/11 American cinema /
This thesis is intended to contribute to critical discussion of the American male hero in mainstream American war and action films post September 11, 2001 . The thesis investigates how these heroes' behaviour echoes a patriotic, conservative construction of the modern American as created through …
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In a State of War: Women’s Experiences of the South Australian Home Front, 1939-45
… in ways that previous overviews of women on the home front have not.
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"""As Good a Right to Pray"": Copperhead Christians on the Northern Civil War Home Front"
Taken as a whole, this study forces historians of the American Civil War to reassess the nature and scope of Democratic opposition to the Republican war effort, and acknowledge an important and overlooked religious dimension to the Copperhead movement.
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Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front
… and war. This research focuses on Hattiesburg, home to the second-largest army training camp during the war. By examining newspaper articles, USO archive records, oral histories, letters, and journals from the National Council of Negro Women, this thesis will allow the story of these women and …
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Militares no home front: Projetos urbanos e arquitetônicos das areas residencias militares brasileiras no segundo pós-guerra
… isolado do projeto do CTA, pouco se sabe sobre o home front dos militares no Brasil, apesar dos incentivos financeiros acima mencionados. Diante dessa lacuna historiográfica, este trabalho investigou os projetos urbanos e arquitetônicos das áreas residenciais do Exército no Brasil durante o …
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The Invasion of the Home Front: Revisiting, Rewriting, and Replaying the First World War in Contemporary Canadian Plays
… of the War. Many of these plays are set on the home front and explore the ways in which the War, in the form of disease, disaster, and intra-communal in-fighting and suspicion, invaded Canadian home space. What they suggest is that the War was not simply launched against an external enemy but …
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Industry and Society: A Study of the Home Front in Barrow-in-Furness during the First World War
… of the war, a focus on the regionality of the home front highlights more precisely the impact on specific places and how the war effort was sustained in practice. The experience of the town of Barrow throughout the period of the First World War is therefore invaluable for demonstrating the …
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Protecting the Home-Front: An Educational Curriculum for Service Providers in Support of Stable Housing for Female Veterans
… have increased risks for housing instability and homelessness linked to predictors such as housing affordability challenges, abuse and trauma experiences, education and employment barriers, mental health and substance use conditions, and social support deficiencies. Social service providers …
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Patriotic piety : the ideals and experiences of conservative Protestant women on the American home front during World War II.
… the most iconic image of the United States home front during World War II. However, not every American woman subscribed to the ideals set forth by the mainstream media, patriotic femininity. Instead, conservative Protestant women embraced the ideal of "patriotic piety." This paper argues …
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The Irish Home Front 1914-18 with Particular Reference to the treatment of Belgian Refugees, Prisioners-of-War, Enemy Aliens and War Casualties
This study examines three distinct aspects of Irish life during the First World War. These are the accommodation of Belgian Refugees, the internment o f ‘enemy aliens’ - mainly Germans and Austrians - and the return of wounded from action in Europe. In each case there were state-led responses to …
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Self, Society and the Second World War. The Negotiation of Self on the Home Front by Diarist and Keighley Schoolmaster Kenneth Preston 1941-1945
… maintained 1941-1945. In tracing Preston’s home front experience, attention is given to the ways in which the war interacted with the individual’s own self and social conceptions, as well as ways in which subjective experiences and perceptions translated into objective realities, such as in …
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Business unusual : art in Britain during the First World War, 1914-1918
… privileging of modern over traditional, front line over home front and dissenting truth over prevailing opinion has resulted in bombastic, unrepresentative and inadequately historicised interpretations of the subject. This thesis supplements and challenges this prevailing picture by …
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Interactions of War: Exhibiting World War II and the Holocaust
… in Kennesaw, Georgia, and the World War II Home Front Museum in St. Simons Island, Georgia. This research also discusses the design of a potential exhibit using interactives about women in the resistance movement during Nazi occupation.</p>
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'Fall in the Children' : a regional study of the mobilisation of the children of the 42nd Regimental Area during the Great War
… being helpless witnesses to the conflict on the Home Front or even passive bystanders, but were instead overwhelmingly reasonably well informed supporters of and valued net contributors to the British war effort. This thesis takes the form of a concentrated regional study, drawing heavily both on …
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The Cruel Consequences of War: Life in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1863
… in Virginia has been studied extensively, the home front has not received as much focus. “The Cruel Consequences of War” helps to fill this void by detailing the wartime experiences of civilians, and the soldiers who occupied the county, in Fauquier. The county was also home to the partisan …
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