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Island Thinking

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Suffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity

ISBN: 9811396787
ISBN 13: 9789811396786
Autor: Davis, Sophia
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiii, 302 S., 15 s/w Illustr., 17 farbige Illustr., 302 p. 32 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

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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Autorenporträt

Sophia Danielle Davis completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in the History and Philosophy of Science, and was subsequently a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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