An International Rediscovery of World War One: Distant Fronts

ISBN-13: 9780367539863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 166 str.

McCormick, Robert B.

Opis

By redirecting focus away from traditional areas of historical examination, such as battles on the Western Front and military strategy, this volume illustrates World War I's omnipresence throughout the world, in particular its effect on less studied peoples and regions.

Spis treści

Foreword Jennifer D. Keene;  Introduction;  1. Forgotten Prisoners of the Tsar: East Prussian Deportees in Russia during World War I;  2. The Forgotten Front? Serbia, Memory and World War I;  3. From George Tom in Cleveland, Ohio, to His Father Tannous Gergis, Mt. Lebanon, Syria: Remittances as Transnational Relief During World War One;  4. The Treaty of Versailles and the Rise of Chinese Feminism;  5. Distanced, Disembodied, and Detached: Women’s Poetry of the First World War;  6. The Martinican War Experience through the Lenses of Raphaël Confiant, Jacques Dumont, and Stéphane Dufoix;  7. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Chinese Laborers Under the French-American Supervision in France During World War One