A Kingdom United Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland
A Kingdom United Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland
- ISBN 13:
9780198708469
- ISBN 10:
0198708467
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 09/24/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Drawing from a vast array of contemporary diaries, letters, journals, and newspaper accounts from across the UK, A Kingdom United explores what people felt, and how they acted, in response to an unanticipated and unprecedented crisis. It is a history of both ordinary people and elite figures in extraordinary times. Pennell demonstrates that describing the reactions of over 40 million British and Irish people to the outbreak of war as either enthusiastic in the British case, or disengaged in the Irish, is over-simplified and inadequate. Emotional reactions to the war were ambiguous and complex, and changed over time. By the end of 1914 the populations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland had largely embraced the war, but the war had also embraced them and showed no signs of relinquishing its grip. The five months from August to December 1914 set the shape of much that was to follow. A Kingdom United describes and explains the twenty-week formative process in order to deepen our understanding of British and Irish entry into war.