The Global First World War: African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators

ISBN-13: 9780367341350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 234 str.

Ana Paula Pires; Jan Schmidt; Mar Tato

Opis

This volume deals with the impacts of the First World War on South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. It will reconstruct some social experiences and representations of the war that these societies built during and after the conflict

Spis treści

Introduction: The global First World War and its mediators Ana Paula Pires, Maria Inés Tato and Jan Schmidt 1. Chinese workers on the Western Front and their extraordinary artistic and personal journey Xu Guoqi 2. The impact of the First World War on Japan’s foreign book market Maj Hartmann 3. Mediating enmity: The propaganda war in Latin America, 1914–1919 Stefan Rinke 4. Reporting the war in British Africa Anne Samson 5. Coverage of the First World War in regional Mexican press: An analysis of El Informador in Guadalajara Guillemette Martin 6. All about national survival: Chinese intellectuals’ understanding of war during the interwar period, 1914–1937 Kwong Chi Man 7. Not a secondary experience:The First World War in Japanese mass media, ministerial bureaucracy publications, elementary schools, and department stores Jan Schmidt 8. An Argentine reporter in the European trenches: Lieut. Col. Emilio Kinkelin’s war chronicles María Inés Tato, Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana 9. Covert wars in Spain (1914–1918): Belligerent agency and local impacts Carolina García Sanz 10. Portuguese humanitarian efforts during the First World War 1 Ana Paula Pires, Rita Nunes