Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Abbreviations xvi
7. Introduction: Home Fronts and the Empire at War 1
8. Part One. Consumption on the Home Front
9. Chapter 1 British Restaurants and the Gender Politics of the Wartime Midday Meal 19
10. Chapter 2 A Nutritional Economy: The Calorie, Development and War in Mandate Palestine 37
11. Chapter 3 Rubber Shortages on Britain’s Home Front 59
12. Chapter 4 Nation-Building and Nationalism in Bengali Children’s Literature during the 1940s and 1950s 76
13. Part Two. The Militarized Home Front
14. Chapter 5 ‘Young blood’ and ‘the blackout’: Love, Sex and Marriage on the South African Home Front 93
15. Chapter 6 Ceylon’s Home Front during the Second World War 111
16. Chapter 7 Nyanza at War: Kenya and the Mobilization of Britain’s Colonial Empire 130
17. Chapter 8 ‘Fighting in Their Ways’? The Civilian Man in British Culture, 1939–1945 146
18. Part Three. Technology, Danger and Waste on the Home Front
19. Chapter 9 ‘The Royal Mail will always get through’: Maintaining Communications on the Home and Military Front during the Second World War 167
20. Chapter 10 ‘National Necessity’ and ‘Patriotic Duty’: Railway Publicity in World War II India 185
21. Chapter 11 Removing Danger: The Making of ‘dangerous internees’ in Australia 206
22. Chapter 12 Bombs and Recycling Drives: The Double Threat to Books and Documents in Wartime Britain 224
23. Select Bibliography 242
24. Index 258