Civvies
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A01=Laura Ugolini
Author_Laura Ugolini
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civilians
combatant sons
English home front
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First World War
middle-class men
middle-class relationships
paterfamilias
profit-making
servicemen
volunteer activities
wartime consumers
white-collar work
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- ISBN 9780719086014
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2013
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The history of the First World War continues to attract enormous interest. However, most attention remains concentrated on combatants, creating a misleading picture of wartime Britain: one might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who – or so it seems – volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not enlist, but we still know little about their wartime experiences. Civvies thus takes a different approach to the history of the war and focuses on those middle-class English men who did not join up, not because of moral objections to war, but for other (much more common) reasons, notably age, family responsibilities or physical unfitness. In particular, Civvies questions whether, if serviceman were the apex of manliness, were middle-class civilian men inevitably condemned to second-class, ‘unmanly’ status?
Laura Ugolini is Reader in History at the University of Wolverhampton
