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What was it like to return to normal life after WWI ended?

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message 1: by Manuel (new)

Manuel | 1439 comments In America it meant: prohibition, a resurgent Klan, relaxed moral standards, Women given the right to vote. more women working outside the home.


message 2: by Jenna (new)

Jenna | 14 comments There are several good books that discuss the aftermath of the war. Some of the books that I mentioned in your other post re: What Life Was like for a soldier should be useful also.

Some sources that are specifically geared towards post-war experiences are:

Adrian, Gregory. The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day, 1919-1946. Oxford: Berg, 1994.

Childes, Kristen Stromberg. Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914-1945. Cornell UP,
2003.

Cohen, Deborah. The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Connelly, Mark. The Great War, Memory, and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East
London, 1916-1939. Royal Historical Society, 2002

Gaffney, Angela. Aftermath: Remembering the Great War in Wales. University of Wales Press,
2000.

Goebel, Stefan. The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in
Britain and Germany, 1914-1940. (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare). Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Graves, Robert and Alan Hodge. The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-
1939. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963.

Gregory, Adrian. The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day, 1919-1946. Berg, 1994.

Lloyd, David. Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimmage and the Commemoration of the Great War in
Britain, Australia, and Canada, 1919-1939. Berg, 1998.

Green, Harvey. The Uncertainty of Everyday Life 1914-1945. New York: HarperPerennial,
1992.

Hagedorn, Ann. Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America 1919. New York: Simon & Schuster,
2007.

Leuchtenberg, William E. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932. University of Chicago Press,
1993.

Paris 1919 Six Months That Changed the World


message 3: by Jenna (new)

Jenna | 14 comments Incidentally, what happened to your post on WWI and censorship?


message 4: by Gabriele (new)

Gabriele Wills (muskoka) | 5 comments Marco wrote: "What was it like to return to normal life after WWI ended?"

That's one of the themes I'm exploring in my latest novel (the first two in the series were set during the war). I have LOTS of research to do into that, so thanks, Jenna, for that list!


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