TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moshenska,Gabriel
TI  - Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
T2  - Material Culture and Modern Conflict
SN  - 9781351345514; 9781351345491; 9781351345507; 9781315122946
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - British
KW  - children
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - War and society
KW  - World war
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25320
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/c053c2f1-70dd-4a10-89f0-f9d489fb6e02/9781138565265_text.pdf
ER  -