Other Fronts, Other Wars? : First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial.
Material type: TextSeries: History of Warfare SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (537 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004279513Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care | World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons | World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Other Fronts, Other Wars? : First World War Studies on the Eve of the CentennialDDC classification: 940.4 LOC classification: D521 -- .O83 2014ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Approaching the Centenary 1914-2014 -- Matthias Egger, Joachim Bürgschwentner and Gunda Barth-Scalmani -- part 1 -- Diverging Front Experiences -- chapter 1 -- Lethal Journey between Four Fronts: First World War Experiences of the Reichstag's Deputies -- Nicolas Patin -- chapter 2 -- Combating Desertion and Voluntary Surrender in the Russian Army During the First World War -- Paul Simmons -- chapter 3 -- Baptism by Snow: The Ottoman Experience of Winter Warfare During the First World War -- Altay Atlı -- chapter 4 -- "Our common colonial voices": Canadian Nurses, Patient Relations, and Nation on Lemnos -- Andrea McKenzie -- part 2 -- Towards a Cultural History of Captivity -- chapter 5 -- Brücken, Beethoven und Baumkuchen: German and Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War and the Japanese Home Front -- Mahon Murphy -- chapter 6 -- Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity -- Kate Ariotti -- chapter 7 -- The Camp Newspaper Nedelja as a Reflection of the Experience of Russian Prisoners of War in Austria-Hungary* -- Christian Steppan -- part 3 -- Occupation on the Eastern War Theatre -- chapter 8 -- Two Kinds of Occupation? German and Austro-Hungarian Economic Policy in Congress Poland 1915-1918 -- Stephan Lehnstaedt -- chapter 9 -- A School of Violence and Spatial Desires? Austro-Hungarian Experiences of War in Eastern Europe 1914-1918 -- Wolfram Dornik -- chapter 10 -- We and Homeland: German Occupation, Lithuanian Discourse, and War Experience in Ober Ost -- Andrea Griffante -- part 4 -- Medical History and War Relief -- chapter 11 -- Serbia as a Health Threat to Europe: The Wartime Typhus Epidemic, 1914-1915 -- Indira Duraković -- chapter 12.
Other Fronts, Other Diseases? Comparisons of Front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment -- Philipp Rauh and Livia Prüll -- chapter 13 -- Who Provided Care for Wounded and Disabled Soldiers? Conceptualizing State-Civil Society Relationship in First World War Austria* -- Ke-chin Hsia -- part 5 -- War at Home: Gender, Space and Entertainment -- chapter 14 -- Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front -- Rudolf Kučera -- chapter 15 -- The Transformation of Local Public Spheres: German, Belgian and Dutch Border Towns during the First World War Compared -- Bernhard Liemann -- chapter 16 -- War on Stage. Home Front Entertainment in European Metropolises 1914-1918 -- Eva Krivanec -- part 6 -- The Shaping of Attitudes and Opinions -- chapter 17 -- Strange Fronts, Strange Wars: Germany's Battle for "Islam" in the Middle East during the First World War, and British Reactions -- Tilman Lüdke -- chapter 18 -- War between Allies: Polish and Ukrainian Intellectuals 1914-1923 -- Maciej Górny -- part 7 -- Remembering the First World War -- chapter 19 -- In the Name of Father and Son: Remembering the First World War in Serbia -- Katarina Todić -- chapter 20 -- The Memory Landscape of the South-Western Front: Cultural Legacy, Promotion of Tourism, or European Heritage? -- Gunda Barth-Scalmani -- Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Names.
Other Fronts, Other Wars? offers insights into areas beyond the Western Front covering aspects such as captivity, occupation of the Eastern war theatre, medical history and war relief, home-front, gender, and the shaping of attitudes during and after this war.
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