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Island Thinking - Suffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Island Thinking - Suffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of
Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in
mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its
insular core. The book uses a highly regional focus to investigate
the imaginative appeal of islands and boundedness, interweaving
twentieth-century histories of militarisation, countryside, nature
conservation and national heritage to create a thickly textured
picture of landscape and history. Referred to as an 'island within
an island', Suffolk's corner of England provides fascinating
stories displaying a preoccupation with vulnerability and threat,
refuge and safety. The book explores the portrayal of the region in
mid-century rural writing that 'rediscovered' the countryside, as
well as the area's extensive militarisation during the Second World
War. It examines various enclosures, from the wartime radar project
to 'make Britain an island again' to the postwar establishment of
secluded nature reserves protecting British birds.
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