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1914–1918
1914–1918: An Anatomy of Global Conflict recounts a history of the First World War from an anthropological perspective. It shares the stories of individual participants, which include soldiers, civilians, and women. The study revisits the events of the war through the lens of everyday life, econo...
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A life lived like a storm
The definitive biography of Enver Pasha, the larger-than-life Young Turk revolutionary who bent the arc of history and reshaped the modern Middle East and EurasiaEnver Pasha (1881–1922) is a hotly contested figure whose career spanned the Young Turk Revolution, the First World War, the collapse o...
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Battle lines
Reorients conventional understandings of Canadian First World War poetry. By focusing on poems about the Canadian soldier, Battle Lines reveals the period's robust literary activity and its conflicting poetic renditions of battle romance and modernist fractiousness.
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Between mutiny and obedience
Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. Leonard Smith, however, argues that a complex dialogue of resistance and negotiation existed between French soldiers and their own commanders. In this case study of wartime...
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Black soldiers, white laws
The first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in US history: the execution of nineteen Black soldiers in TexasOn the sweltering, rainy night of August 23, 1917, one of the most consequential events affecting America’s long legac...
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Broken lives
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler ...
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Cataclysm 1914
This collection argues that the First World Warand its consequenceswas perhaps the defining moment of 20th century world-politics.
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Democracy’s foot soldiers
A captivating history of the Afro-Caribbean soldiers who fought for the British Empire in World War I and their transnational campaign for equalityFollowing the outbreak of World War I, tens of thousands of men from the British Caribbean volunteered as soldiers to fight on behalf of the British E...
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I killed and i bled
A published account of the trenches and their aftermath from French writer Blaise Cendrars.
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Social-imperialism in britain
In this important volume, Redfern rigorously examines the relationship between British labour and British capital during the two world wars of the twentieth century.
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State and revolution in finland
Risto Alapuro, through a comparative and historical study of the Finnish revolution, provides a pertinent account of how upheavals in powerful countries impact smaller countries.
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The arming of europe and the making of the first world war
David Herrmann's work is the most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First World War. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, which has been extensively studied before, Herrmann dra...
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The imperial aircraft flotilla
A great wave of fundraising patriotic associations followed in the wake of Great Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, at home but also right across the empire. The most successful public campaign of all was launched in London at the beginning of 1915. Known as the Imperial Ai...
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The war at home
Exploring Minnesota’s history from the beginning of the European war in 1914 through the 1920 U.S. election provides a unique vantage point from which to assess the war’s impact on American society.Americans went to war in 1917 not only against Germany but also against each other. The controversi...
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The war that made the middle east
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle EastThe Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of ...
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Worldmaking in the long great war
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among ...
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“nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified”: irish literary responses to the great war
This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio of war writers.
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