War at a Distance : : Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime / / Mary A. Favret.

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register w...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2010
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 12 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prelude. A Winter's Evening
  • PART I. Modern Wartime: Media and Affect
  • Chapter One. Introduction: A Sense of War
  • Chapter Two. Telling Time in War
  • Interlude. Still Winter Falls
  • PA RT II. Invasions
  • Chapter Three. War in the Air
  • Chapter Four. Everyday War
  • Interlude. A Brief History of the Meaning of War
  • PART III. War in the World
  • Chapter Five. Viewing War at a Distance
  • Coda. Undone
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index