“Married men had greater responsibilities”: The First World War, the Service Imperative, and the Sacrifice of Single Men
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Published:2015
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Page:109-137
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Container-title:Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship
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Levine-Clark Marjorie
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
Reference19 articles.
1. P.E. Dewey, “Recruiting and the British Labour Force during the First World War,” Historical Journal 27, no. 1 (1984): 199;
2. and R.J.Q. Adams, “Asquith’s Choice: The May Coalition and the Coming of Conscription, 1915–1916,” Journal of British Studies 25, no. 3 (1986): 247.
3. For excellent introductions to the culture of the war and place of recruitment and the draft, see Adrian Gregory, The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008),
4. and George Robb, British Culture and the First World War (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
5. See, for example, R.J.Q. Adams and Philip P. Poirier, The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900–18 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1987);