Contesting home defence

Contesting home defenceContesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guards reputation and explores whether this peoples army was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the

in opposition and government

This book contains essays

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accompanied by insightful essays

and expands and redefines conventional conceptions of both surrealist and modernist canons

attracting large audiences

NanoCulture explores the ways in which nanotechnology interacts with

In addition to transcripts of the interviews

Gendered Transformations offers a rare interdisciplinary approach to gender that reflects the most recent developments in media theory and methodology

‘Hometown Hamburg’ explores the role of institutionalized historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic

and a Romantic-era history play

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the current European media in a period of disruptive transformation