The Routledge History of the First World War / edited by Paul R. Bartrop.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bartrop, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1955- editor.

Series:

Routledge histories.

Routledge Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (862 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

The Routledge History of the First World War is a work which, in a single volume, covers a range of major themes and issues relating to that conflict.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: Origins and Outbreak: Why War?

Part 1 Conflict: Fighting the War

1 The Western Front: Then and Now

2 The Eastern Front

3 The Middle East Front During the First World War

4 A "Sideshow" to the Great War: The Forgotten Campaign in the Caucasus

5 A Cosmopolitan Education in Arms: The Salonika Front, 1915-1918

6 The Italian Front

7 The First World War at Sea: A Tale of Two Wars

8 Cavalry of the Clouds: The Development and Experience of the First World War in the Air

Part 2 Experiences: The Allied and Associated Powers

9 Invaded, Occupied, Liberated: Belgium in the First World War

10 Brazil at War

11 Chinese Manpower Contributions and Dashed Hopes in the First World War and Versailles

12 The French Home Front(s), 1914-1918

13 Greece, 1914-1922: The Experience of Total War

14 New Perspectives on Ireland's Great War

15 Italy During the First World War: The Home Front

16 Japan in the First World War

17 The Kingdom of Montenegro: A State Lost in the Great War

18 Portugal at War

19 Romania's Road to War and Its Aftermath

20 Imperial Russia's Revolutionary Great War

21 Serbia at War

22 "Put This in Our Great History": Thai Experiences in World War I

23 Enduring the First World War: British Society, 1914-1918

24 The United States During the First World War

Part 3 Experiences: The Central Powers

25 Austria-Hungary Enters the War and Why It Never Left

26 "May the Bulgarian Soldier Fly from One Victory to Another": Bulgarian Participation in the Great War

27 German Society and the First World War

28 The Ottoman Empire

Part 4 Experiences: Greater Britain

29 The First World War in Australia: Commitment and Division.

30 Affirming a Nation: Canadians Respond to the First World War

31 Crossroads of Empire: India During the First World War

32 Equalizing Sacrifice: New Zealand Society and Conscription

33 An Ill-Fated Encounter: Newfoundland and the First World War

34 A House Divided: South Africa and World War I

35 "Lads of the West": The British West Indies Regiment (1915-1919)

Part 5 Diversities: Colonial Empires at War

36 The British Colonial Empire

37 Rallying, Reconfiguring and Resisting Empire: Dynamics of the First World War in Frances's Colonies

38 World War I and the German Colonies

39 From the Centre to the Edge: Italian Colonies in the First World War

40 The Belgian Colonial Empire

41 The Portuguese Empire and Portuguese Communities Abroad

Part 6 Backrooms: Fighting by Other Means

42 Alliance Politics and the First World War

43 Science, Technology, and Innovation

44 Propaganda

45 Intelligence in the First World War

Part 7 Solace, Pain, Torment, and Slaughter

46 Conscientious Objectors and the War

47 "Better Safe Than Sorry?" Civilian Internment and the War

48 "God With Us, and We With God, and Victory Will Be Ours": War, Religion and the Chaplains

49 The Wounds of War: Injury, Sickness, and Survival on the Western Front

50 Behind Barbed Wire: The International Experience of Captivity During the First World War

51 "A Purely Intuitive Sense of What Justice Demanded": War Pogroms, 1914-1918

52 Genocide During the First World War

Part 8 Surviving: Remaining Neutral

53 Neutrals and Neutrality in a World of Total War, 1914-1918

54 Vatican Neutrality and the Great War

Part 9 Termination: Ending the War

55 How to End the War? From "Peace Without Victory" to a Victory Without Peace

56 Ending the War.

57 Complications and Compromise: The Paris Peace Conference and the End of the Great War

Part 10 Remembrance and Meanings

58 Starting Over: Reordering Society

59 Remember the Fallen: Memorialization of the Great War

60 Endings and Beginnings: A World at War and Its Place in Global History

Chronology

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781040104699

104010469X

9781003363439

1003363431

9781040104712

1040104711

OCLC:

1432445837