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Agency and Locality in the London Blitz (Bryant, Darren)
Agency and Locality in the London Blitz
Autor Bryant, Darren
Verlag Springer Nature Switzerland
Co-Verlag Springer International Publishing
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
Seiten 328 S.
Artikelnummer 46015186
ISBN 978-3-031-50984-1
Auflage 24001 A. 1st edition 2024
CHF 163.90
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Zusammenfassung

This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term ¿London Blitz¿ means that culturally we have become accustomed to understanding that the actual blitz experience was the same wherever in the capital one happened to be, despite some areas being hit more than others. This book illustrates how there were many London blitzes, not one, influenced by a myriad of metropolitan localities, and giving rise to an agency of locality that helped to shape the lived blitz experience. By walking through the streets of London, this book conducts a local area analysis, witnessing the blitz through six London localities, representative of the assorted administrative, economic, and socio-political variables prevalent in wartime London. Covering air raids alongside topics like the provision of shelters, homelessness, and communal feeding, it shows how any history of the London Blitz must acknowledge that it was an experience reflective of a varied metropolis.

Darren Bryant was awarded his PhD in History from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.