{"product_id":"agency-and-locality-in-the-london-blitz-9783031509841","title":"Agency and Locality in the London Blitz","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term ‘London Blitz’ means that culturally we have become accustomed to understanding that the actual blitz experience was the same wherever in the capital one happened to be, despite some areas being hit more than others. This book illustrates how there were many London blitzes, not one, influenced by a myriad of metropolitan localities, and giving rise to an agency of locality that helped to shape the lived blitz experience. By walking through the streets of London, this book conducts a local area analysis, witnessing the blitz through six London localities, representative of the assorted administrative, economic, and socio-political variables prevalent in wartime London. Covering air raids alongside topics like the provision of shelters, homelessness, and communal feeding, it shows how any history of the London Blitz must acknowledge that it was an experience reflective of a varied metropolis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction and Historiography.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreamble.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTip and Run Raids: 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLittle Blitz: 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eV-Weapons: 1944–1945.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHistoriography Review.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCritique of Historiography: An Absence of Locality.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHistoriographical Themes: Home Front Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHistoriographical Themes: The Myth of the Blitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eShaping Wartime Experience: Metropolitan Differentials.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eClass.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGender.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRace.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eShaping Wartime Experience: The Agency of Locality.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLocal Area Analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Six London Boroughs.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan London: Finsbury.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan London: Bermondsey.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan London: Kensington.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSuburban Essex: East Ham.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSuburban Surrey: Croydon.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSuburban Middlesex: Acton.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eApplying a Thematic Approach.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2 Planning for War: London and the Localities.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePre-War Fears.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePlanning for War: Central Government.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePlanning for War: Regional and County Level.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePlanning for War: Local Authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan London: Finsbury.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan London: Bermondsey.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetropolitan London: Kensington.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSuburban Essex: East Ham.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSuburban Surrey: Croydon.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSuburban Middlesex: Acton.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3 Main London Blitz Local Response: Metropolitan London.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAir Raids.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eShelters.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHomelessness: Rest Centres.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCommunal Feeding.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4 Main London Blitz Local Response: The Suburbs.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAir Raids.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eShelters.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHomelessness: Rest Centres.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCommunal Feeding.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEve of the Main London Blitz.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMain London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5 Post-Blitz London: The Local Response.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTip and Run Raids 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLittle Blitz 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eV-Weapons 1944–1945.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 Local Response: Conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043577626967,"sku":"9783031509841","price":89.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783031509841.jpg?v=1750958747","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/agency-and-locality-in-the-london-blitz-9783031509841","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}