| Contents |
| Preface |
viii |
| Acknowledgements |
ix |
| Introduction |
xi |
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| 1 |
'Clad in Glittering White' |
1 |
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| 2 |
Virtuous Inferiority |
14 |
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| 3 |
'To Die Young' |
31 |
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Muscular Christians |
31 |
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Spreading the gospel |
36 |
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The rush to the colours |
42 |
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| 4 |
Business as Usual |
54 |
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A strategy of sorts |
54 |
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The people respond |
64 |
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A nation divided |
70 |
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Strategy in disarray |
73 |
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| 5 |
War by Improvisation: Money, Manpower, Munitions and Food |
79 |
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Arms and the nation |
81 |
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Feeding the people |
86 |
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The problem of manpower |
92 |
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Paying for the war |
106 |
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| 6 |
Working for the War |
109 |
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Cooperation and conflict |
110 |
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The state and the worker |
121 |
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Working women |
126 |
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| 7 |
Aliens, Outlaws and Dissenters |
140 |
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The criminal element |
140 |
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Pernicious pacifists |
143 |
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Anti-conscription |
153 |
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Spies and imaginary spies |
157 |
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Postscript |
160 |
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| 8 |
Lions and Donkeys |
161 |
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| 9 |
Mobilising Minds |
174 |
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Propaganda |
175 |
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Censorship and the press |
180 |
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German atrocities |
187 |
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The enemy within |
191 |
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Postscript |
195 |
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| 10 |
Houses, Homes and Health |
197 |
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Housing |
197 |
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Food and household necessities |
201 |
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The nation's health |
210 |
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Children |
214 |
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Holding it all together |
223 |
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| 11 |
'Are You Forgetting There's a War On?' |
226 |
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| 12 |
Denouement: 1918 |
247 |
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| 13 |
Coming Home |
253 |
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Slips and civvie suits |
253 |
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Pensions and rehabilitation |
257 |
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Demobilised women |
262 |
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'Standing stoutly together' |
265 |
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| 14 |
The Dead, the Living and the Living Dead |
271 |
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The dead |
272 |
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Surviving |
275 |
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The ritual of remembrance |
284 |
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| 15 |
The Social Legacy of the War: Three Steps Forward, Two Back |
290 |
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Consciousness and conflict |
291 |
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A land fit for heroes? |
301 |
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Freedom and emancipation v. homes, husbands and babies |
304 |
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Postscript |
309 |
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| 16 |
Politics and the People: the Triumph of the Hard-Faced Men |
312 |
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The 1918 Representation of the People Act |
312 |
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Politics and the 1918 election |
314 |
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Women and politics |
320 |
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Reconstruction |
322 |
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| Bibliography |
334 |
| Index |
344 |
