Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self

by James Hinton

Book Overview

James Hinton uses diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain to re-evaluate the social history of the Second World War, and to reflect on the twentieth-century making of the modern self.

These diaries were written by some of the unusually self-reflective and public-spirited people who agreed to write intimate journals about their daily activity for the social research organisation, Mass Observation. One of the nine diarists discussed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199605157
• ISBN13: 9780199605156
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"