The Great War in Belgium and the Netherlands: Beyond Flanders Fields

ISBN-13: 9783319731070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 226 str.

Felicity Rash; Christophe Declercq

Opis

This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries.

Spis treści

Chaper 1. When Neutrality cannot Protect against Belligerence: The Position of the Low Countries seen from Beyond Flanders Fields; Felicity Rash.

Chapter 2.  “A Less-than-total Total War”: Neutrality, Invasion, and the Stakes of War, 1914-1918; Sophie de Schaepdrijver.

Chapter 3. The Flames of Louvain; John Williams.

Chapter 4. Furies, Spies and Fallen Women: Gender in German Public Discourse about Belgium, 1914-1918; Sebastian Bischoff.

Chapter 5.The Cultural Mobilization of Language and Race during the First World War: the Interaction between Dutch and Belgian Intellectuals in Response to the German Flamenpolitik; Tessa Lobbes.

Chapter 6. Which Belgium after the War? German Academics dealing with the First World War and its Aftermath; Geneviève Warland.

Chapter 7. Belgian Exile Press in Britain; Christophe Declercq.

Chapter 8. Trapped in Occupied Brussels: Roberto J. Payró's war Experience, 1914-1915; Maria Inés Tato.

Chapter 9. A Cambro-Belgian in the Great War: Frank Brangwyn as Artist and Activist; Hugh Dunthorne.

Chapter 10. The Low Countries as Enemies, 1918-1920; Hubert van Tuyll.

Chaper 11. Westfront Nieuwpoort: The (Collected) Memory of the Belgian Front; Karen Shelby.

Index

O autorze

Felicity Rash is Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Christophe Declercq is Senior Lecturer in Translation at the Centre for Translation Studies at University College London, UK, and Lecturer at University Leuven, Belgium.