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Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I
Clémentine Tholas-Disset
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Description for Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I
Hardback. Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War. Editor(s): Ritzenhoff, Karen A.; Tholas-Disset, Clementine. Num Pages: 308 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBLW; HBWN; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War.
Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
599g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137449092
SKU
V9781137449092
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Ref
99-15
About Clémentine Tholas-Disset
Giaime Alonge, University of Turin, Italy Laurent Bihl, Panthéon Sorbonne University, France Anne Cirella-Urrutia, Huston-Tillotson University, USA Claire Conilleau, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France Robert Crawford, University of Technology, Australia Renee Dickason, University of Brittany, France Koenraad Du Pont, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/ Brussels Center for Journalism Studies, Belgium Jakub Kazecki, Bates College, USA Jenna L. Kubly, Tufts University, USA Adrian T. ... Read more
Reviews for Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I
“This is a thoroughly enjoyable book offering insight and interest for cultural historians of the Great War the world over. Refreshingly, it deals with a number of topics otherwise overlooked in relation to the conflict, and offers contributions from a mixture of new and established academics.” (Pip Gregory, Reviews in History, history.ac.uk, April, 2016) "Tholas-Disset and Ritzenhoff have produced ... Read more