New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man's Land

ISBN-13: 9783031493249 / Angielski

Mandy Link; Matthew M. Stith

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PART I: LOOKING PAST THE WESTERN FRONT.- 1. Richard Smith - West Indian Soldiers and the Commemorative and Mediated Landscapes of the First World War.- 2. Olga Alexeeva - World War I in East Asia: The Transnational Aspects of the Qingdao Battle and its Unforeseen Consequences for the Balance of Power in China.- 3. Nicholas Villanueva Jr. - A ‘Foreign Legion’: Mexican Americans, World War One, and the Homefront.- 4. Elizabeth Stice - Empire and Harrow’s ‘Epic of War’.- 5. Rebekah O. McMillan - War and Welfare: How the Great War Altered Social Policy.- 6. Eric W. Osborne - Two Sides to the Same Coin:  Diplomacy and its Impact on Britain’s Naval Blockade of Germany in World War I.- PART II: THE CULTURE OF WAR.- 7. Matthew M. Stith - Vermin in the Trenches: Rats, Lice, and the Ubiquitous War with Nature.- 8. Cynthia Ross - Dinner in the Trenches: Military Rations, Mobile Mess, and Field Bakeries of American Doughboys.- 9. Robert W. Rennie - Deconstructing Rudolf Berthold: The Contested Narratives of German First World War Aviators.- 10. Theresa Ann Case - Unionism in Defeat: The Unraveling of a World War I Compact in Texas Rail Towns.- 11. Kyle Falcon - Tracing the Hand of God: Spiritual Imaginations and the Culture Legacy of the Great War.- PART III: GENDER AND WAR.- 12. Kaia Magnusen - Blurring the Line and Walking the Street: The Fragmentation of Visual Distinctions between Prostitutes and New Women in Otto Dix’s Drei Dirnen auf der Straße.- 13. Mandy Link - 'Eminently, Appalling Suffering’: Irish Women in World War I Medical Services and the Failure of Remembrance.- 14. Katie Laird - The ‘Barefoot War’: How World War I and British Law Destabilized Gender Structures in Early Twentieth Century Palestine.- 15. Cynthia Wachtell - Fragmenting the Myth of Male Author-ity: Ellen N. La Motte and The Backwash of War.

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Mandy Link is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA. She published Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State, 1914-1937: Specters of Empire with Palgrave in 2019.

Matthew M. Stith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA. He is the author or editor of three books including Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier (2016) and, as co-editor, Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War (2019).