Joining up in the Second World War Sven Widmalm

Joining up in the Second World War Sven WidmalmJoining up explores mens encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculinity in wartime Britain.

It scrutinises the Home Guard’s reputation and explores whether this ‘people’s army’ was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the time

to provide an illuminating and innovative picture of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalism

It intersperses first-person narratives with readings by artists and scholars on issues critical to the organization’s success

comprehensive introduction

yet pragmatically embraces its potential to facilitate and enable a radical internationalist politics

in the time of Germany’s division from 1949 to 1990

• interactivity

an age of political and industrial revolution in which the Derby philosophers were closely involved

post-imperial setting

The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif through his writings takes on a clearer social dimension in the 'drama de mujeres en los pueblos de España'

sustainability studies and urban planning

has been re-edited from the original manuscript