The Deluge: British Society and the First World War [Paperback]

Almost continuously in print for 40 years, this classic title describes life on the home front, analyzing the social changes that made Britain of the 1920s a vastly different place from the Britain that went to war in 1914. This reissued second edition features a new Preface by leading historian Joanna Bourke.

List of Illustrations.- Preface to Reissued Second Edition;?J.Bourke.- Preface to Second Edition.- Introduction: War and Social Change in Twentieth Century Britain.- Preface.- Early Days: August 1914-March 1915.- Changed Men: 1915-1916.- New Women: 1915-1916.- Gentlemen in England Now Abed: 1915-1916.- The Challenge to Laissez-faire.- Seasons of Discontent: 1917-1918.- Science and Collectivism.- The End of the War.- After the Deluge.- Bibliography.- Index.

ARTHUR MARWICK is Emeritus Professor of History at The Open University, UK. His many publications include War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century (1974), British Society Since 1945 (expanded edition 1990) and The New Nature of History (2001, also published by Palgrave Macmillan).Almost continuously in print for 40 years, The Deluge is widely recognised as one of the classics of post-1960 British historical writing, and as the book which initiated the systematic study of the social consequences of modern war. Arthur Marwick describes life on the home front during the first total war in history, analysing the social changes that made Britain of the 1920s a vastly different place from the Britain that went to war in 1914. Comprehensive, precisely documented, full of colourful detail and apt quotations, The Deluge portrays a society in transition at every level.

This reissued second edition features a new contextualising Preface by leading historian Joanna Bourke. Bourke considers how Marwick's work engaged with contemporary debates and examines why it was so silC…