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Island Thinking = Suffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Island Thinking/ by Sophia Davis.
Reminder of title:	Suffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity /
Author:	Davis, Sophia.
Description:	XIII, 302 p. 32 illus., 17 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Human geography. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9676-2
ISBN:	9789811396762

Island Thinking = Suffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity /
Davis, Sophia.

Island ThinkingSuffolk Stories of Landscape, Militarisation and Identity /[electronic resource] :by Sophia Davis. - 1st ed. 2020. - XIII, 302 p. 32 illus., 17 illus. in color.online resource.

1. Island Stories -- 2. Secluded Suffolk: Countryside Writing, c.1930–1960 -- 3. Invaded Island: Wartime Enclosures and Postwar Memories -- 4. Looking to the Skies: Postwar Radar Stories -- 5. Birds and Belonging: The Return of the Avocet, 1947–1969 -- 6. Nature Set in Reserve: 1950s–60s Nature Conservation -- 7. Rewilding and War Monuments: Orford Ness, c.1995 to the Present -- 8. Conclusion.

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.

ISBN: 9789811396762

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-13-9676-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

571437
Human geography.

LC Class. No.: GF1-900

Dewey Class. No.: 304.2

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