A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-45, Graham Broad
Автор: Davis, Brian L. Название: The German Home Front 1939–45 ISBN: 1846031850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846031854 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink Рейтинг: Цена: 2226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: This book offers insights into why engagement in commercial sex is prolific as sexual culture is transformed in late modernity. Drawing on original empirical data with men who buy sex, the book explores not only `why men buy sex`, but also the sociological and psychological processes that men encounter in order to enter an assumed `deviant` sexual behaviour as part of their everyday lives.
Описание: This unique collection of letters offers a vivid glimpse of life in wartime London. C. Roger Myers, a young psychology professor at the University of Toronto, was appointed as advisor to the RAF on methods for pilot selection and training. His research at air bases in the UK and North America, significantly contributed to the reduction of the loss of pilots and planes. Many letters illuminate his struggle with fatigue and loneliness, missing his young family in Canada, while humour and satire shine through others. Myers was an entertaining storyteller and keen observer of daily life in Britain. He describes his frustration with the traditionalist approach of the RAF and the eccentricities of his senior colleague. Myers' account is enhanced by letters from his wife, Helen, who like many women during wartime, did not expect to sign up to be a single parent.
During the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million and from political insignificance to a position of influence in the emergence of the welfare state. What was it about the “good war” that brought about this phenomenal growth?
Labour Goes to War analyzes the organizing strategies of the CIO during the war to show that both cultural and economic forces were at work. Labour shortages gave workers greater power in the workplace and increased their militancy. But workers’ patriotism, their ties to those on active service, and allegiance to the “people’s war” also contributed to the CIO’s growth – and to what it claimed for workers. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Wendy Cuthbertson illuminates this complex wartime context. She also shows how the complex, often contradictory, motives of workers during this period left the Canadian labour movement with an ambivalent progressive/conservative legacy.
Автор: Serge Marc Durflinger Название: Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec ISBN: 0774812605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774812603 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 14929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Verdun, English and French speakers lived side by side. Through their home-front activities as much as through enlistment, they proved themselves partners in the prosecution of Canada’s war. Shared experiences and class similarities shaped responses based first and foremost in a sense of local identity. Fighting from Home paints a comprehensive, at times intimate, portrait of Verdun and Verdunites at war. Durflinger offers an innovative interpretive approach to wartime Canadian and Quebec social and cultural dynamics in this history of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
Описание: During the Second World War, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, public health officials warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished Canadians to “Eat Right” because “Canada Needs You Strong” while cookbooks helped housewives become “housoldiers” through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household production. Ian Mosby explores the symbolic and material transformations that food and eating underwent as the Canadian state took unprecedented steps into the kitchens of the nation, changing the way women cooked, what their families ate, and how people thought about food. Canadians, in turn, rallied around food and nutrition to articulate new visions of citizenship for a new peacetime social order.
Автор: Kandiah Michael, Rowbotham Judith Название: The Diaries and Letters of Lord Woolton 1940-1945 ISBN: 0197266843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197266847 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 25117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first comprehensive survey of Lord Woolton`s wartime role, based on selections from Diaries and Letters 1940-1945, covering his time as Minister of Food (1940-1943) and less familiarly, as Minister of Reconstruction (1943-1945).
Автор: Jeffries, John W. Название: Wartime america the world war ISBN: 1442276487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442276482 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 14995.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Designed to give students a concise exploration of World War II`s transformative role in American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition with new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, coverage of WWII as the Good War, and the concept of "the Greatest Generation."
Описание: Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania examines the World War II experience of 1,200 Italian soldiers, detained at Letterkenny Army Depot. They provided valuable logistical, quartermaster, repair, and ordnance support that aided Allied operations, these POWs formed strong bonds with local citizens and Italian Americans, leaving a lasting legacy.
Автор: Chevalier, Natacha (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) Название: Food in Wartime Britain ISBN: 103223704X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032237046 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle-classes from their own words throughout the course of the Second World War.
Автор: Mclaine, Ian Название: Ministry of morale ISBN: 1032041234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032041230 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book, first published in 1979, is an analysis of the wartime Ministry of Information, responsible for the maintenance of public morale. It examines the domestic work of the Ministry and offers an unprecedented insight into the mind of both government and people during the war.
Описание: We often picture life on the Canadian home front as a time of austerity, as a time when women went to work and men went to war. Graham Broad explodes this myth of home front sacrifice by bringing to light the contradictions of consumer society in wartime. Governments pressured Depression-weary citizens to save for the sake of the nation, but Canadians had money in their pockets, and advertisers tempted them with fresh groceries, glamorous movies, and new cars and appliances. Broad reveals that our “greatest generation” was not impervious to temptation but rather embarked on one of the biggest spending booms in our nation’s history.
In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Five internment camps were located on the southern shores of the St. Lawrence River in the province of Quebec: at Farnham, Grande Ligne, ?le-aux-Noix, Sherbrooke, and Sorel.
Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates. Martin Auger shows how internment imposed psychological and physical strain in the form of restricted mobility, sexual deprivation, social alienation, and lack of physical comfort. In response, Canadian authorities introduced labour projects and education programs to uphold morale, thwart internal turmoil, and prevent escapes. These initiatives were also intended to expose prisoners to the values of a democratic society and prepare them for postwar reintegration.
Auger concludes that Canada abided by the Geneva Convention; its treatment of German prisoners was humane. Prisoners of the Home Front sheds light on life behind barbed wire, filling an important void in our knowledge of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
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