New Perspectives on the First World War Beyond No Man’s Land
Taken collectively, the chapters in New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land not only illuminate pieces of the Great War that remain in the shadow of the broader narratives, but also, and more importantly, foster new perspectives, pose distinct questions, and suggest fresh direc...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1.All Quiet on Every Front: Fighting the Great War Beyond No Man’s Land
- Part I The Global War
- 2.World War I in East Asia: Transnational Aspects of the Qingdao Campaign (August 23–November 7, 1914)
- 3.West Indian Soldiers and the Mediated, Imagined Landscapes of the First World War
- 4.Great Britain’s World War I Naval Blockade of Germany: International Law Versus the Trident of Neptune
- Part II Cultures of War
- 5.Of Rats and Men: The Decisive Role of Rodents on the Western Front
- 6.Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War
- 7.Deconstructing Rudolf Berthold: The Brittle, Violent Life of Germany’s “Iron” Aviator
- Part III Between the Home Front and the Front Lines
- 8.Dinner in the Trenches: Army Rations, Rolling Kitchens, and the Logistics of Food for American Doughboys
- 9.War and Welfare: Separation Allowances in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States
- 10.Unionism in Defeat: The Unravelling of a World War I Compact in Texas Rail Towns
- Part IV Gender and War
- 11.Blurring the Line and Walking the Street: The Elision of Visual Distinctions Between Prostitutes and New Women in Otto Dix’s Three Prostitutes on the Street (Drei Dirnen auf der Straße)
- 12.“Eminently appalling suffering”: Irish Women in World War I Medical Services, Citizenship, and Remembrance in the Irish Free State During the 1920s
- 13.The “Barefoot War”: How World War I and British Law Disrupted Gender Structures in Mandate Palestine