Erscheint: Februar 2027

The Military-Industrial Enclosure of Britain’s Countryside in the Second World War

Fields into Factories

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Gary Willis

Verlag:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34870816

EAN: 9781350546844

Erscheint: Februar 2027

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Beschreibung

This book is an examination of how Britain's Second World War aircraft building and arms production led to a state-sponsored military-industrial land enclosure that irrevocably changed the nation's landscape. Using a wide range of previously ignored and understudied material from national and local archives, The Military-Industrial Enclosure of Britain's Countryside in the Second World War. uncovers the location, origins, war-time use and post-war lives of a critical mass of 220 sites owned and/or operated by the Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Aircraft Production, the two ministries at the heart of British war production. Through a chronological analysis of the lives of these factories, Gary Willis demonstrates that, from an environmental history perspective, Britain experienced a long. Second World War from 1936 when sites were first identified and building commenced, until 1946, by which time the post-war fate of the majority of sites had been decided. That this military-industrial infrastructure was predominantly built on green-field sites in rural and peri-urban areas has not previously been identified, analysed or quantified, and as a result the broad environmental impact of Britain's Second World War has been obscured until now.

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Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Gary Willis

Erscheinungsjahr

2027

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

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