[PDF] An International Rediscovery Of World War One eBook

Author : Robert B. McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429438882

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"International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean. Readers can uncover the neglected stories of this First World War as contributors draw particular attention to features of the war that are underrepresented such as Chinese contingent labour, East Prussian refugees, remittances from Syrian immigrants in the New World to struggling relatives in the Ottoman Empire, the war effort from Serbia to Martinique, and other war experiences. By redirecting focus away from the traditional areas of historical examination, such as battles on the Western Front and military strategy, this collection of essays, international and interdisciplinary in nature, illustrates the war's omnipresence throughout the world, in particular its effect on less studied peoples and regions. The primary objective of this volume is to examine the First World War through the lens of its forgotten participants, neglected stories, and underrepresented peoples"--

Author : Robert B. McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0429798334

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International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean. Readers can uncover the neglected stories of this World War I as contributors draw particular attention to features of the war that are underrepresented such as Chinese contingent labor, East Prussian deportees, remittances from Syrian immigrants in the New World to struggling relatives in the Ottoman Empire, the war effort from Serbia to Martinique, and other war experiences. By redirecting focus away from the traditional areas of historical examination, such as battles on the Western Front and military strategy, this collection of chapters, international and interdisciplinary in nature, illustrates the war’s omnipresence throughout the world, in particular its effect on less studied peoples and regions. The primary objective of this volume is to examine World War I through the lens of its forgotten participants, neglected stories, and underrepresented peoples.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107393868

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This work poses a straightforward - yet at the same time perplexing - question about World War I: Why did it happen? Several of the oft-cited causes are reviewed and discussed. The argument of the alliance systems is inadequate, lacking relevance or compelling force. The arguments of mass demands, those focusing on nationalism, militarism and social Darwinism, it is argued, are insufficient, lacking indications of frequency, intensity, and process (how they influenced the various decisions). The work focuses on decision-making, on the choices made by small coteries, in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain and elsewhere. The decisions made later by leaders in Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, the Balkans, and the United States are also explored. The final chapters review the 'basic causes' once again. An alternative position is advanced, one focused on elites and coteries, their backgrounds and training, and on their unique agendas.

Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1108496199

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This revised and updated interpretation of World War I highlights the revolutionary nature and legacy of the conflict of 1914-1919. It examines the political, economic, social and cultural history of the war at home as well as the war's origins, ending and subsequent legacy.

Author : Roger Parkinson
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Worl War, 1914-1918
ISBN :

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Presents the diplomatic, military, and political origins of World War I. Includes extracts from contemporary documents.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1319191142

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A brief but thorough collection, Susan Grayzel’s new revision of The First World War document reader allows students to experience this historical turning point through various sources from the period and the scholarship tied to them.

Author : William Mulligan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521886333

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A new interpretation of the origins of World War I that synthesises recent scholarship and introduces the major historiographical and political debates surrounding the outbreak of the war. It examines key issues, providing a clear account of relations between the great powers, disintegrating empires, and the role of smaller states.

Author : Sidney Bradshaw Fay
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN :

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I. Before Sarajevo: underlying causes of the war.--II. After Sarajevo: immediate causes of the war.

Author : Anna Branach-Kallas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1040013473

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Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies. This book provides an exploration of the ways in which war memory can be appropriated, neglected and disabled, but also “unlearned” and “decolonized”. The book offers an analysis of the experience of soldiers of colour in five novels published at the centenary of the First World War by David Diop, Raphaël Confiant, Fred Khumalo, Kamila Shamsie and Abdulrazak Gurnah, examining the poetics and the politics of the conflict’s commemoration. It explores continuities between WWI and earlier and later eruptions of violence, thus highlighting the long-lasting sequels of the first global conflict in the former French, British and German empires. It thereby asks important questions about the decolonization of the memory of the First World War, its tools, critical potential and limitations. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students working in postcolonial literatures, postcolonial and decolonial studies, First World War studies, colonial history, human and political geography, as well as readers interested in cultural memory and overlapping legacies of violence.

Author : Julian Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350141356

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This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to reveal less expected areas of language use during the conflict. Taking the study of the First World War far beyond the Western Front, chapters examine experiences in many regions, including Africa, Armenia, post-war Australia, Russia and Estonia, and a variety of contexts, from prisoner-of-war and internment camps, to food queues and post-war barracks. Drawing upon a wide variety of languages, such as Esperanto, Flemish, Italian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Romanian and Turkish, Multilingual Environments in the Great War brings together language experiences of conflict from both combatants and the home front, connecting language and literature with linguistic analysis of the immediacy of communication.