Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Home Fronts and the Empire at War; Part One: Consumption on the Home Front; 1 British Restaurants and the Gender Politics of the Wartime Midday Meal; 2 A Nutritional Economy: The Calorie, Development and War in Mandate Palestine; 3 Rubber Shortages on Britain's Home Front; 4 Nation-Building and Nationalism in Bengali Children's Literature during the 1940s and 1950s; Part Two: The Militarized Home Front

5 'Young blood' and 'the blackout': Love, Sex and Marriage on the South African Home Front6 Ceylon's Home Front during the Second World War; 7 Nyanza at War: Kenya and the Mobilization of Britain's Colonial Empire; 8 'Fighting In Their Ways'? The Civilian Man in British Culture, 1939-1945; Part Three: Technology, Danger and Waste on the Home Front; 9 'The Royal Mail will always get through': Maintaining Communications on the Home and Military Front during the Second World War; 10 'National Necessity' and 'Patriotic Duty': Railway Publicity in World War II India

11 Removing Danger: The Making of 'dangerous internees' in Australia12 Bombs and Recycling Drives: The Double Threat to Books and Documents in Wartime Britain; Select Bibliography; Index