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In the stories unfolded throughout this book, we have glimpsed some of the huge cultural transformations marking mid-twentieth-century Britain at an intensely local level, in a small patch of the country that was shaped by invasion and defence, progress and destruction. The island nation would have to be understood in different terms following both the contraction of the empire to its core and the increasing militarisation experienced through the Second World War.
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Davis, S. (2020). Conclusions. In: Island Thinking. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9676-2_8
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