Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial
perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial
territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front"
during the Second World War, including issues such as how people
coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war
effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies
on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other
colonial territory, neglecting the fact that Britain controlled a
large Empire and that there were numerous "home fronts", each of
which contributed greatly to the war effort but each in slightly
different ways. This book considers "home fronts" from an overall
imperial perspective and in a broad array of territories -
Australia, India, South Africa, Ceylon, Palestine and Kenya aswell
as Britain. It examines many aspects of wartime life - food,
communications, bombing, volunteering, internment and more, and
discusses important themes including identity, gender, inequality,
and the relationship between civilians and the state. Besides case
studies outlining the detail of the situation in different
territories and in different areas of life, the book assesses "home
fronts" across the Empire in a comprehensive way, setting the case
studies in their wider context, and placing the subject in, and
advancing, the historiography. MARK J. CROWLEY is Associate
Professor of History at Wuhan University, China. SANDRA TRUDGEN
DAWSON is an Instructor in the Department of History at the
University of Maryland. Contributors: NUPUR CHAUDHURI, MARK J.
CROWLEY, SANDRA TRUDGEN DAWSON, NADJA DURBACH, ASHLEY JACKSON,
RITIKA PRASAD, LINSEY ROBB, SHERENE SEIKALY, JEAN SMITH,ANDREW
STEWART, PETER THORSHEIM, CHRISTINE WINTER
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