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• November 1995

  Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

  Coetzee, F. & M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: History: World War I

• eBook available May 2017

  Between Empire and Continent

  British Foreign Policy before the First World War

  Rose, A.

  Historians have commonly interpreted Britain’s attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

• eBook available August 2018

  Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

  The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

  Bardach, B.

  Care and Carnage on the Eastern Front documents the day-to-day life of a doctor serving on the Eastern Front between 1914-1918. Bardach’s meticulous records offer a personal glimpse into the critical first weeks of fighting as well as the ultimate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

  Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies

• eBook available May 2022

  Continental Transfers

  Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

  Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

  The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal exchange using new theoretical ground to understand the development links to the construction of national and supranational identities, such as Latinism and Hispanism.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

• eBook available May 2017

  Daily Life in the Abyss

  Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

  Tachjian, V.

  Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.

  Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

• eBook available November 2022

  Different from the Others

  German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

  Sturgess, C.

  Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

• November 2003

  Evidence, History and the Great War

  Historians and the Impact of 1914-18

  Braybon, G. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: History: World War I

• November 1996

  Forging the Collective Memory

  Government and International Historians through Two World Wars

  Wilson, K. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Memory Studies

• November 2000

  France At War in the Twentieth Century

  Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor

  Holman, V. & Kelly, D. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II Media Studies

• April 1999

  From World War to Waldheim

  Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

  Good, D. & Wodak, R. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: World War I Cultural Studies (General)

• eBook available October 2007

  An Improbable War?

  The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

  Afflerbach, H., & Stevenson, D. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: History: World War I

• eBook available January 2021

  In the Shadow of the Great War

  Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

  Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

  Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

  Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

• eBook available August 2011

  The Legacies of Two World Wars

  European Societies in the Twentieth Century

  Kettenacker, L. & Riotte, T. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

• eBook available December 2019

  Men Under Fire

  Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

  Hutečka, J.

  In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself.

  Subjects: History: World War I Gender Studies and Sexuality

• eBook available April 2016

  Rationed Life

  Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918

  Kučera, R.

  Hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. This study reconstructs their collective experience through explorations of food, labor, gender, and protest to assemble a fascinating case study in twentieth century social history.

  Subjects: History: World War I Sociology

• eBook available July 2015

  The Spirit of the Laws

  The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide

  Akçam, T. & Kurt, U

  Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth.

  Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

• June 2000

  Under Siege

  Portraits of Civilian Life in France During World War I

  Young, R. (ed)

  
  

  Subject: History: World War I

• eBook available August 2017

  World War I and the Jews

  Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America

  Rozenblit, M. L. and Karp, J. (eds)

  World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East participated in and were changed by the Great War during and after the conflict.

  Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I

• November 2020

  Writing the Great War

  The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

  Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

  The history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field.

  Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

• July 2023

  Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

  Jezernik, B.

  Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I