Other combatants, other fronts : competing histories of the First World War / edited by James E. Kitchen, Alisa Miller and Laura Rowe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kitchen, James E.

Miller, Alisa, 1980-

Rowe, Laura

International Society for First World War Studies. Conference 2009 : Imperial War Museum, London)

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Congresses.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Europe--Congresses.

Neutrality--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses.

Neutrality.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 330 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Summary:

The First World War is a subject that still fascinates the public as well as the academy. In recent years the historiography associated with the period has expanded to include studies whose emphasis ranges from the economic, social, cultural, literary and imperial impacts of the war, all coinciding with revisions to perceptions of its military context. The chapters included in this book represent research that presses at the edge of existing scholarship, undertaken across disciplinary and national boundaries. They explore the question of what 'total war' meant for the lives of people around the world implicated in this momentous event Overall the book sheds light on the mechanisms that ensured that this was a global war with a legacy-positive and negative, and often surprising-that remains relevant to our understanding of war as a vast and unwieldy, and ultimately very human, phenomenon. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Alternative Mobilisations

Chapter 1 From Peacetime to Wartime: The Sicilian Province of Catania and Italian Intervention in the Great War, June 1914 - September 1915 / Sean Brady Brady, Sean 3

Chapter 2 'The Aims of Science are the Antithesis to those of War': Academic Scientists at War in Britain and France, 1914-18 / Tomás Irish Irish, Tomás 29

Chapter 3 'Faithful unto Death': Commemorating Jack Cornwell's Service in the Battle of Jutland / Mary Conley Conley, Mary 55

Section II Issues of Neutrality

Chapter 4 'A Wonderful Something': The Netherlands and the War in 1914 / Conny Kristel Kristel, Conny 79

Chapter 5 Government by Committee: Dutch Economic Neutrality and the First World War / Samuël Kruizinga Kruizinga, Samuël 99

Chapter 6 La Suisse pendant la Grande Guerre, 'front de la dissidence' et plate-forme d'éxchanges franco-allemands / Landry Charrier Charrier, Landry 125

English Translation / Michael P.M. Finch Finch, Michael P.M. 145

Section III Race, National Identity and the Experience of War

Chapter 7 Challenging European Colonial Supremacy: The Internment of 'Enemy Aliens' in British and German East Africa during the First World War / Daniel Steinbach Steinbach, Daniel 153

Chapter 8 'Racial' Mixing of Prisoners of War in the First World War / Timothy L. Schroer Schroer, Timothy L. 177

Chapter 9 The Recruiter's Eye on - The Primitive': To France - and Back - in the Indian Labour Corps, 1917-18 / Radhika Singha Singha, Radhika 199

Chapter 10 Beyond the bonhomme Banania: Lucie Cousturier's Encounters with West African Soldiers during the First World War / Alison S. Fell Fell, Alison S. 225

Section IV Legacies of Violence

Chapter 11 From 'Skagerrak' to the 'Organisation Consul': War Culture and the Imperial German Navy, 1914-22 / Mark Jones Jones, Mark 249

Chapter 12 Perceptions of the First World War in Turkish Autobiography / Philipp Wirtz Wirtz, Philipp 275

Chapter 13 Fighting the Alien Problem in a British Country: Returned Soldiers and Anti-alien Activism in Wartime Canada, 1916-19 / Nathan Smith Smith, Nathan 293.

Notes:

Papers derived from the 5th conference of the International Society for First World War Studies, Sept. 2009, at the Imperial War Museum, London.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

1443827371

9781443827379

OCLC:

707460438

Publisher Number:

99944423997