Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781138565265; 9781351345514; 9781351345491; 9781351345507; 9781315122946
Subjects: History; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
Description: Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in
history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized
nature of modern war possesses a material and psychological intensity that
embodies the extremes of our behaviours, from the total economic mobilization
of a nation state to the unbearable pain of individual loss. Fundamentally,
war is the transformation of matter through the agency of destruction,
and the character of modern technological warfare is such that it simultaneously
creates and destroys more than any previous kind of conflict.
Notes: English.