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Calls to Arms: New Zealand Society and Commitment to the Great War
Steven Loveridge
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Description for Calls to Arms: New Zealand Society and Commitment to the Great War
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages, 50 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JJF; HBJM; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
During World War I, New Zealand society committed itself to a war effort, the intensity of which can be glimpsed in the wealth spent, the extraordinary legislation passed, the emotions evoked, and the enlistment of near 10 percent of the country's population in the armed forces. It is sometimes presumed that this commitment reflects general wartime hysteria or the effects of imposed propaganda—with all the manipulative trickery that that term implies.
Calls to Arms takes a different view, and considers this commitment as emblematic of deeper cultural sentiments and wider social forces which were marshaled in a cultural mobilization: ... Read more
During World War I, New Zealand society committed itself to a war effort, the intensity of which can be glimpsed in the wealth spent, the extraordinary legislation passed, the emotions evoked, and the enlistment of near 10 percent of the country's population in the armed forces. It is sometimes presumed that this commitment reflects general wartime hysteria or the effects of imposed propaganda—with all the manipulative trickery that that term implies.
Calls to Arms takes a different view, and considers this commitment as emblematic of deeper cultural sentiments and wider social forces which were marshaled in a cultural mobilization: ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9780864739674
SKU
V9780864739674
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About Steven Loveridge
Steven Loveridge has taught courses on World War I, and has written several scholarly publications on aspects of New Zealand's experience of the war.
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