First World War Books

Book SynopsisThe essays collected here suggest some of the ways in which an interdisciplinary perspective may contribute to our understanding of the Great War. Contributors examine the relationship between the character of the war and the nature of belligerent societies, and present original research on the comparative history of the First World War. In 1914-1918, the front lines did not only separate warring nations, but also cut across belligerent societies and ultimately determined the social responses to the conflict. Indeed, the ‘totalizing logic’ of the First World War entailed the blurring of boundaries between combatants and non-combatants, soldier and civilian. Subjects included are operational and tactical evolution, social mobilization, military discipline and morale, prisoners of war, veterans and demobilization, religion and politics, war literature and cinema, memory and commemoration. Contributors: Pierre Purseigle; Patrick Porter; Dennis Showalter; Leonard V. Smith; Nicolas Ginsburger; Elise Julien; Paul Mulvey; Keith Grieves; Leen Engelen; Nicolas Beaupre; Jennifer D. Keene; Elizabeth Fordham; Vanda Wilcox; Heather Jones; Gearoid Barry.Table of ContentsIntroduction : warfare and belligerence : approaches to the First World War / Pierre Purseigle .. 1 1 'It all goes wrong!' : German, French, and British approaches to mastering the western front / Dennis Showalter ..39 2 Discipline in the Italian army 1915-1918 / Vanda Wilcox ..73 3 New Jerusalems : sacrifice and redemption in the war experiences of English and German military chaplains / Patrick Porter ..101 4 Encountering the 'enemy' : prisoner of war transport and the development of war cultures in 1914 / Heather Jones ..133 5 Marc Sangnier's war, 1914-1919 : portrait of a soldier, Catholic and social activist / Gearoid Barry ..163 6 From liberalism to labour : Josiah C. Wedgwood and English liberalism during the First World War / Paul Mulvey ..189 7 Protest and disability : a new look at African American soldiers during the First World War / Jennifer D. Keene ..215 8 Huts, demobilisation and the quest for an associational life in rural communities in England after the great war / Keith Grieves ..243 9 An American geographer between science and diplomacy : the mission of Douglas W. Johnson in Europe, May-November 1918 / Nicolas Ginsburger ..265 10 The great war and modern scholarship : academic responses to war in Paris and London / Elizabeth Fordham ..295 11 New writers, new literary genres (1914-1918) : the contribution of historical comparatism (France, Germany) / Nicolas Beaupre ..323 12 Women readers of Henri Barbusse : the evidence of letters to the author / Leonard V. Smith ..347 13 Cinematic representations of the enemy in Belgian silent fiction films / Leen Engelen ..359 14 Paris, Berlin : war memory in two capital cities (1914-1933) / Elise Julien ..379

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Book SynopsisThe growing military, political and socio-economic costs for all belligerents as the Great War entered its fourth year were increasingly evident, liberal democracies and authoritarian states alike having to remobilise public opinion for yet greater sacrifices. While the Western Front was facing these challenges, 1917 was also marked by the collapse of Tsarist Russia and by food riots resuting both from the Entente's blockade of Central Europe and the revival of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Central Powers. Ottoman Turkey was feeling the strain of war as well, as British forces advanced in both Palestine and Mesopotamia. For states as yet uncommitted to war, such as the United States and China, 1917 was a year of decision. This volume amply illustrates the significance of this crucial year in the global conflict. Contributors are Lawrence Sondhaus, Eric Grove, Keith Grieves, Matthew Hughes, Kaushik Roy, Vanda Wilcox, Laura Rowe, and Nick Hewitt.Table of ContentsList of Contributors .. vii Introduction .. ix Ian F. W. Beckett Planning for the Endgame: The Central Powers, September 1916–April 1917 .. 1 Lawrence Sondhaus Generalship and Mass Surrender during the Italian Defeat at Caporetto .. 25 Vanda Wilcox ‘Weary Waiting is Hard Indeed’: The Grand Fleet after Jutland .. 47 Nick Hewitt Counting Unrest: Physical Manifestations of Unrest and Their Relationship to Admiralty Perception .. 71 Laura Rowe Climax in the Baltic: The German Maritime Offensive in the Gulf of Riga in October 1917 .. 97 Eric Grove Command, Strategy and the Battle for Palestine, 1917 .. 113 Matthew Hughes The Army in India in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1918: Tactics, Technology and Logistics Reconsidered .. 131 Kaushik Roy War Comes to the Fields: Sacrifi ce, Localism and Ploughing Up the English Countryside in 1917 .. 159 Keith Grieves Index .. 177

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Book SynopsisOther Fronts, Other Wars? goes beyond the Western Front geographically and delves behind the trenches focusing on the social and cultural history of the First World War: it covers front experiences in the Ottoman and Russian Armies, captivity in Japan and Turkey, occupation at the Eastern war theatre, medical history (epidemics in Serbia, medical treatment in Germany) and war relief (disabled soldiers in Austria). It studies the home front from the aspect of gender (loosing manliness), transnational comparisons (provincial border towns) and culture (home front entertainments in European metropoles) and gives insight on how attitudes were shaped through intellectual wars of scientists and through commemoration in Serbia. Thus the volume offers a wide range of new approaches to the history of the First World War. Contributors are Kate Arrioti, Altai Atlı, Gunda Barth-Scalmani, Joachim Bürgschwentner, Wolfram Dornik, Indira Durakovic, Matthias Egger, Maciej Górny, Andrea Griffante, Ke-chin Hsia, Rudolf Kučera, Eva Krivanec, Stephan Lehnstaedt, Bernhard Liemann, Tilman Lüdke, Andrea McKenzie, Mahon Murphy, Nicolas Patin, Livia Prüll, Philipp Rauh, Paul Simmons, Christian Steppan and Katarina Todić.Trade Review"The overall purpose of this volume is to take the readers through a multitude of war theatres, not just in the geographical sense, away from the Western Front. The organizers first and the editors later certainly should be commended for their work, as this book represents a new approach and an exciting read... This is indeed a very interesting volume that includes cutting-edge research on the war... an excellent choice in order to get a better understanding of the First World War." Roberto Mazza, War in History 24.3 (2017)Table of ContentsPreface…ix List of Figures…xi Notes on Contributors…xiii Introduction: Approaching the Centenary 1914–2014…1 Matthias Egger, Joachim Bürgschwentner and Gunda Barth-Scalmani Part 1: Diverging Front Experiences 1 Lethal Journey between Four Fronts: First World War Experiences of the Reichstag’s Deputies…19 Nicolas Patin 2 Combating Desertion and Voluntary Surrender in the Russian Army During the First World War …41 Paul Simmons 3 Baptism by Snow: The Ottoman Experience of Winter Warfare During the First World War… 62 Altay Atlı 4 “Our common colonial voices”: Canadian Nurses, Patient Relations, and Nation on Lemnos …92 Andrea McKenzie Part 2: Towards a Cultural History of Captivity 5 Brucken, Beethoven und Baumkuchen: German and Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War and the Japanese Home Front …125 Mahon Murphy 6 Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity …146 Kate Ariotti 7 The Camp Newspaper Nedelja as a Reflection of the Experience of Russian Prisoners of War in Austria-Hungary… 167 Christian Steppan Part 3: Occupation on the Eastern War Theatre 8 Two Kinds of Occupation? German and Austro-Hungarian Economic Policy in Congress Poland, 1915–1918 …197 Stephan Lehnstaedt 9 A School of Violence and Spatial Desires? Austro-Hungarian Experiences of War in Eastern Europe, 1914–1918 …218 Wolfram Dornik 10 We and Homeland: German Occupation, Lithuanian Discourse, and War Experience in Ober Ost …237 Andrea Grifffante Part 4: Medical History and War Relief 11 Serbia as a Health Threat to Europe: The Wartime Typhus Epidemic, 1914–1915 …259 Indira Duraković 12 Other Fronts, Other Diseases? Comparisons of Front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment …280 Philipp Rauh and Livia Prüll 13 Who Provided Care for Wounded and Disabled Soldiers? Conceptualizing State-Civil Society Relationship in First World War Austria …303 Ke-chin Hsia Part 5: War at Home: Gender, Space and Entertainment 14 Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front …331 Rudolf Kučera 15 The Transformation of Local Public Spheres: German, Belgian and Dutch Border Towns during the First World War Compared …349 Bernhard Liemann 16 War on Stage. Home Front Entertainment in European Metropolises 1914–1918 …370 Eva Krivanec Part 6: The Shaping of Attitudes and Opinions 17 Strange Fronts, Strange Wars: Germany’s Battle for “Islam” in the Middle East during the First World War, and British Reactions …389 Tilman Lüdke 18 War between Allies: Polish and Ukrainian Intellectuals 1914–1923… 415 Maciej Górny Part 7: Remembering the First World War 19 In the Name of Father and Son: Remembering the First World War in Serbia… 437 Katarina Todić 20 The Memory Landscape of the South-Western Front: Cultural Legacy, Promotion of Tourism, or European Heritage? …463 Gunda Barth-Scalmani Bibliography… 501 Index of Places …505 Index of Names …514

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Book SynopsisThe Finnish Civil War 1918 offers a rich account of the history and memory of the short conflict between socialist Reds and non-socialist Whites in the winter and spring of 1918. It also traces the legacy of the bloody war in Finnish society until today. The volume brings together established scholarship of political and social history with newer approaches stemming from the cultural history of war, memory studies, gender studies, history of emotions, psychohistory and oral history. The contributors provide readers with a solid discussion of the Civil War within its international and national frameworks. Among themes discussed are violence and terror, enemy images, Finnish irredentist campaigns in Soviet Karelia and the complex memory of the conflict. Besides a historical narrative, the volume discusses the current state of historiography of the Finnish Civil War. Contributors are Anders Ahlbäck, Pertti Haapala, Marianne Junila, Tiina Kinnunen, Tiina Lintunen, Aapo Roselius, Tauno Saarela, Juha Siltala, Tuomas Tepora and Marko Tikka.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments…vii List of Figures and Maps…viii List of Contributors …x xii Introduction: The Finnish Civil War, Revolution, and Scholarship…1 Tuomas Tepora and Aapo Roselius Part 1: War and its Prelude 1 The Expected and Non-Expected Roots of Chaos: Preconditions of the Finnish Civil War…21 Pertti Haapala 2 Being absorbed into an Unintended War…51 Juha Siltala 3 Warfare and Terror in 1918…90 Marko Tikka 4 Holy War: Finnish Irredentist Campaigns in the Aftermath of the Civil War…119 Aapo Roselius Part 2: Cultural Contents and Wartime Experiences 5 The Mystifijied War: Regeneration and Sacrifijice…159 Tuomas Tepora 6 Women at War…201 Tiina Lintunen 7 War through the Children’s Eyes…230 Marianne Junila 8 Masculinities and the Ideal Warrior: Images of the Jäger Movement…254 Anders Ahlback Part 3: Interpretations and Remembrance 9 The War of Liberation, the Civil Guards, and the Veterans’ Union: Public Memory in the Interwar Period…297 Aapo Roselius 10 To Commemorate or Not: The Finnish Labor Movement and the Memory of the Civil War in the Interwar Period…331 Tauno Saarela 11 Changing Perceptions of 1918: World War II and Post-War Rise of the Left…364 Tuomas Tepora 12 The Post-Cold War Memory Culture of the Civil War: Old-New Patterns and New Approaches…401 Tiina Kinnunen Select Bibliography…441 Index…444 454 Contents Table

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Book SynopsisWorld War I and Propaganda offers a new look at a familiar subject. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that the traditional view of propaganda as top-down manipulation is no longer plausible. Drawing from a variety of sources, scholars examine the complex negotiations involved in propaganda within the British Empire, in occupied territories, in neutral nations, and how war should be conducted. Propaganda was tailored to meet local circumstances and integrated into a larger narrative in which the war was not always the most important issue. Issues centering on local politics, national identity, preservation of tradition, or hopes of a brighter future all played a role in different forms of propaganda. Contributors are Christopher Barthel, Donata Blobaum, Robert Blobaum, Mourad Djebabla, Christopher Fischer, Andrew T. Jarboe, Elli Lemonidou, David Monger, Javier Pounce,Catriona Pennell, Anne Samson, Richard Smith, Kenneth Andrew Steuer, María Inés Tato, and Lisa Todd.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Propaganda and Negotiating Imperial Identity 1. Transcending the nation: domestic propaganda and supranational patriotism in Britain, 1917-18 David Monger 2. Presenting the War in Ireland, 1914-1918 Catriona Pennell 3. “Fight the Huns with Food”: Mobilizing Canadian Civilians for the Food War Effort during the Great War, 1914-1918 Mourad Djebabla 4. Propaganda, imperial subjecthood and national identity in Jamaica during the First World War Richard Smith 5. South Africa and the First World War Anne Samson Section II: Propaganda and the Proper Conduct of War 6. The Hun and the Home: Gender, Sexuality and Propaganda in First World War Europe Lisa M. Todd 7. "German Propaganda and Prisoners-of-War during World War I" Kenneth Steuer 8. Soldiers of Empire: “Colonial Troops” in the Imperial Metropole and Imperial Propaganda, 1914-1918 Andrew Jarboe Section III: Propaganda and Negotiating Occupation 9. Of Occupied Territories and Lost Provinces: German and Entente Propaganda in the West during World War I Christopher Fischer 10. The Cultivation of Deutschtum in Occupied Lithuania during the First World War Christopher Barthel 11. A Different Kind of Home Front: War, Gender and Propaganda in Warsaw, 1914-1918 Robert Blobaum and Donata Blobaum Section IV: Propaganda and Negotiating with Neutral Nations 12. Propaganda and Mobilizations in Greece during the First World War Elli Lemonidou 13. Propaganda and Politics: Germany and Spanish Opinion in World War I Javier Ponce Marrero 14. Luring Neutrals. Allied and German Propaganda during the First World War María Inés Tato Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConsisting of twenty-three essays, The Decade of the Great War examines the 1910s as a pivotal period with deep connections both to the imperialist heyday of the 1880s‒1890s, and to the vibrant global politics, commercial expansion, and social movements of the 1920s. It critically reviews Japan’s diplomatic and military relations, offering both a reexamination of some of the issues addressed in the earlier scholarship on the war years and a needed sense of the breadth of Japan’s new international relations. It highlights the importance of transnational approaches to the study of Japan’s domestic, intra-imperial, and foreign affairs. Together, the essays in this volume provide a wide-range of perspectives on relations within Asia and between Asian, European, and North American states. Contributors are: Isao Chiba, Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, Evan Dawley, Martin Dusinberre, Bert Edström, Selçuk Esenbel, Rustin B. Gates, Tze-ki Hon, Masato Kimura, Chaisung Lim, John D. Meehan, SJ, Tosh Minohara, Hiromi Mizuno, Tadashi Nakatani, Sochi Naraoka, Yoshiko Okamoto, Sumiko Otsubo, Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska, Caroline Rose, J. Charles Schencking, Chika Shinohara, Shusuke Takahara, and Sue C. Townsend.Table of ContentsPreface …ix Acknowledgements …xi List of Tables …xiv List of Figures …xv List of Volume Editors and Contributors …xviii Japan and the Wider World in the Decade of the Great War: Introduction …1 Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley Section 1: Diplomacy and Foreign Relations The Clash of Pride and Prejudice: The Immigration Issue and US-Japan Relations in the 1910s …21 Tosh Minohara From Alliance to Conference: The British Empire, Japan and Pacific Multilateralism, 1911-1921 …45 John D. Meehan Out with the New and in with the Old: Uchida Yasuya and the Great War as a Turning Point in Japanese Foreign Affairs …64 Rustin B. Gates The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War: Unprecedented Opportunities and Harsh Realities …83 J. Charles Schencking Securing the Maritime Trade: Triangular Frictions between the Merchant Marines of the US, UK and Japan …107 Masato Kimura From Cooperation to Conflict: Japanese-Russian Relations from the Formation of the Russo-Japanese Entente to the Siberian Intervention …130 Isao Chiba The Wilson Administration and the Mandate Question in the Pacific: Struggle among the Powers over the Disposition of Former German Colonies …149 Shusuke Takahara What Peace Meant to Japan: The Changeover at Paris in 1919 …168 Tadashi Nakatani A New Look at Japan’s Twenty-One Demands: Reconsidering Katō Takaaki’s Motives in 1915 …189 Sōchi Naraoka Japan as a Distant Friend: Scandinavian Countries Adjusting to Japan’s Emergence as a Great Power …211 Bert Edström The Making of a European Friend: Japan’s Recognition of Independent Poland …231 Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska Friends in Opposite Camps or Enemies from Afar: Japanese and Ottoman Turkish Relations in the Great War …257 Selçuk Esenbel Section 2: National and Transnational Networks Women on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Migration and the Colonization of Taiwan …281 Evan Dawley The Great War and Urban Crisis: Conceptualizing the Industrial Metropolis in Japan and Britain in the 1910s …301 Susan C. Townsend Gender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko’s Role in Institutionalizing Women’s Education in Japan …323 Chika Shinohara The Science Room as an Archive: Taishō Japan and WWI …349 Hiromi Mizuno Of World History and Great Men: A Japanese Village and its Worlds …372 Martin Dusinberre Buddhism and the Twenty-One Demands: The Politics Behind the International Movement of Japanese Buddhists …394 Yoshiko Okamoto Railroad Workers and World War I: Labor Hygiene and the Policies of Japanese National Railways …415 Chaisung Lim Sovereignty and Imperial Hygiene: Japan and the 1919 Cholera Epidemic in East Asia …439 Yuehtsen Juliette Chung Fighting on Two Fronts: Japan’s Involvement in the Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 …461 Sumiko Otsubo Changing Mutual Perceptions of China-Japan Relations in the 1910s in Chinese and Japanese Textbooks …481 Caroline Rose Global Competition for Power and Wealth: The Chinese Views of the World before and after the Great War …504 Tze-ki Hon Compiled Bibliography …521 Index …532

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Book SynopsisIn A World At War, 1911-1949, leading and emerging scholars of the cultural history of the two world wars begin to break down the traditional barriers between the historiographies of the two conflicts, identifying commonalities as well as casting new light on each as part of a broader mission, in honour of Professor John Horne, to expand the boundaries of academic exploration of warfare in the 20th century. Utilizing techniques and approaches developed by cultural historians of the First World War, this volume showcases and explores four crucial themes relating to the socio-cultural attributes and representation of war that cut across both the First and Second World Wars: cultural mobilization, the nature and depiction of combat, the experience of civilians under fire, and the different meanings of victory and defeat. Contributors are: Annette Becker, Robert Dale, Alex Dowdall, Robert Gerwarth, John Horne, Tomás Irish, Heather Jones, Alan Kramer, Edward Madigan, Anthony McElligott, Michael S. Neiberg, John Paul Newman, Catriona Pennell, Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, Daniel Todman, and Jay Winter. See inside the book.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catriona Pennell and Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses Part 1: Mobilizing Minds 1 Cultural Mobilization: Henry Moore and the Two World Wars  J.M. Winter 2 Petitioning the World: Intellectuals and Cultural Mobilization in the Great War  Tomás Irish 3 ‘German Servicemen See Europe’: Cultural Mobilization of Troops on the Aegean ‘Quiet Front’  Anthony McElligott Part 2: Soldiering: Experience and Representation 4 The Sharp End: Witnessing, Perpetrating, and Suffering Violence in 20th Century Wars  Alan Kramer 5 The Isle of Saints and Soldiers: The Evolving Image of the Irish Combatant, 1914–1918  Heather Jones and Edward Madigan 6 “For What and For Whom Were We Fighting?” Red Army Soldiers, Combat Motivation and Survival Strategies on the Eastern Front in the Second World War  Robert Dale Part 3: Civilians under Fire 7 Against Civilians: Atrocities, Extermination, and Genocide from One World War to the Other, 1942/44–1914  Annette Becker 8 Mobility and Immobility in Civilian Experiences of the First World War: Refugees and Occupied Populations in Europe, 1914–1918  Alex Dowdall 9 Occupation, Memory, and Cultural Demobilization: Paris as Case Study  Michael S. Neiberg Part 4: Victory and Defeat 10 Post-wars and Violence: Europe between 1918 and the Later 1940s  Robert Gerwarth 11 A Croat Iliad? Miroslav Krleža and the Refractions of Victory and Defeat in Central Europe  John Paul Newman 12 “The Worst Disaster”: British Reactions to the Fall of Singapore  Daniel Todman A World at War: 1911–1949: Conclusion  John Horne Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Italy in the Era of the Great War, Vanda Wilcox brings together nineteen Italian and international scholars to analyse the political, military, social and cultural history of Italy in the country’s decade of conflict from 1911 to 1922. Starting with the invasion of Libya in 1911 and concluding with the rise of post-war social and political unrest, the volume traces domestic and foreign policy, the economics of the war effort, the history of military innovation, and social changes including the war’s impact on religion and women, along with major cultural and artistic developments of the period. Each chapter provides a concise and effective overview of the field as it currently stands as well as introducing readers to the latest research. Contributors are Giulia Albanese, Claudia Baldoli, Allison Scardino Belzer, Francesco Caccamo, Filippo Cappellano, Selena Daly, Fabio Degli Esposti, Spencer Di Scala, Douglas J. Forsyth, Irene Guerrini, Oliver Janz, Irene Lottini, Stefano Marcuzzi, Valerie McGuire, Marco Pluviano, Paul O’Brien, Carlo Stiaccini, Andrea Ungari, and Bruce Vandervort. See inside the book.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Vanda Wilcox 1 A Military History of the Turco-Italian War (1911-1912) for Libya and Its Impact on Italy’s Entry into the First World War  Bruce Vandervort 2 The Evolution of Tactical Regulations in the Italian Army in the Great War  Fabio Cappellano 3 The Italian Air Force from Its Origins to 1923  Andrea Ungari 4 Discipline and Military Justice in the Italian Army  Irene Guerrini and Marco Pluviano 5 A Machiavellian Ally? Italy in the Entente (1914-1918)  Stefano Marcuzzi 6 Italy, the Adriatic and the Balkans: From the Great War to the Eve of the Peace Conference  Francesco Caccamo 7 An Imperial Education for Times of Transition: Italian Conquest, Occupation and Civil Administration of the Southeast Aegean, 1912-23  Valerie McGuire 8 Inventing Fascism in the Period of Italian Neutrality: the Case of Benito Mussolini, August 1914 – May 1915  Paul O’Brien 9 Liberalism, Civil Rights, and Reform: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and the Great War  Spencer di Scala 10 Catholic Neutralism and the Peasant Protest against War, 1914-1918  Claudia Baldoli 11 Demobilisation and Political Violence in Italy, 1918-1922  Giulia Albanese 12 Women’s Experiences with War  Allison Scardino Belzer 13 The Catholic Church and the War  Carlo Stiaccini 14 Monetary and Financial Policy and the Crisis of Liberal Italy, 1914-22  Douglas J. Forsyth 15 The Industrial and Agricultural Mobilization of Italy  Fabio Degli Esposti 16 Futurism and the Avant-Gardes  Selena Daly 17 The Soldier and the Cinematic Lieutenant. The Great War in Italian Silent Cinema (1915-18)  Irene Lottini 18 Commemoration and the Cult of the Fallen in Italy  Oliver Janz Timeline of Key Events, 1911-1922 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines the experience of World War I of small nations, defined here in terms of their relative weakness vis-à-vis the major actors in European diplomacy, and colonial peripheries, encompassing areas that were subject to colonial rule by European empires and thus located far from the heartland of these empires. The chapters address subject nations within Europe, such as Ireland and Poland; neutral states, such as Sweden and Spain; and overseas colonies like Tunisia, Algeria and German East Africa. By combining analyses of both European and extra-European experiences of war, this collection of essays provides a unique comparative perspective on World War I and points the way towards an integrated history of small nations and colonial peripheries. Contributors are Steven Balbirnie, Gearóid Barry, Jens Boysen, Ingrid Brühwiler, William Buck, AUde Chanson, Enrico Dal Lago, Matias Gardin, Richard Gow, Florian Grafl, Dónal Hassett, Guido Hausmann, Róisín Healy, Conor Morrissey, Michael Neiberg, David Noack, Chris Rominger, Danielle Ross and Christine Strotmann.Trade Review"[...] this edited volume, taken from Brill’s History of Warfare series, makes a valuable contribution to the impact of the war on smaller nations and ‘colonial peripheries’. Based on conference proceedings, and incorporating the work of junior scholars alongside more established names, the volume presents a pleasingly eclectic selection of papers." Martin J. Bayly, London School of Economics and Political Science, in: International Journal of Military History and Historiography 37.2 (2017).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix List of Contributors x Part 1 Shifting Identities in the Global War 1 Towards an Interconnected History of World War i: Europe and Beyond 1 Gearoid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago and Roisin Healy 2 The Revolutionary Program of the German Empire: The Case of Ireland 19 Christine Strotmann 3 “I Want Citizens’ Clothes”: Irish and German-Americans Respond to War, 1914–1917 37 Michael S. Neiberg Part 2 Small Nations 4 Protestant Nationalists and the Irish Conscription Crisis, 1918 55 Conor Morrissey 5 Pow s and Civilian Internees in Ireland During World War I 73 William Buck 6 Neutral Allies or Immoral Pariahs? Scandinavian Neutrality, International Law and Great Power Politics in World War I 92 Michael Jonas 7 Civil and Military Relations in Spain in the Context of World War I 107 Richard Gow 8 World War i and Its Impact on Catalonia 125 Florian Grafl 9 Fabricating National Unity in Torn Contexts: World War I in the Multilingual Countries of Switzerland and Luxembourg 140 Ingrid Bruhwiler and Matias Gardin 10 Imperial Service, Alienation, and an Unlikely National “Rebirth”: The Poles in World War i 157 Jens Boysen 11 The Ukrainian Moment of World War i 177G uido Hausmann Part 3 Colonial Peripheries 12 Small War on a Violent Frontier: Colonial Warfare and British Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918–1919 193 Steven Balbirnie 13 Fighting for the Tsar, Fighting against the Tsar: The Use of Folk Culture to Mobilize the Tatar Population during World War I and the Russian Revolution (1914–1921) 211 Danielle Ross 14 Continuing the Great Game: Turkestan as a German Objective in World War i 230 David X. Noack 15 Paths Not Taken: Mukhtar Al-Ayari and Alternative Voices in Post-War Tunisia 245 Chris Rominger 16 Defijining Imperial Citizenship in the Shadow of World War I: Equality and Diffference in the Debates around Post-War Colonial Reform in Algeria 263 Donal Hassett 17 German East Africa: A Territory and People in World War I 281 Aude Chanson Index 2933

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Book SynopsisConsisting of twenty-three essays, The Decade of the Great War examines the 1910s as a pivotal period with deep connections both to the imperialist heyday of the 1880s‒1890s, and to the vibrant global politics, commercial expansion, and social movements of the 1920s. It critically reviews Japan’s diplomatic and military relations, offering both a reexamination of some of the issues addressed in the earlier scholarship on the war years and a needed sense of the breadth of Japan’s new international relations. It highlights the importance of transnational approaches to the study of Japan’s domestic, intra-imperial, and foreign affairs. Together, the essays in this volume provide a wide-range of perspectives on relations within Asia and between Asian, European, and North American states. Contributors are: Isao Chiba, Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, Evan Dawley, Martin Dusinberre, Bert Edström, Selçuk Esenbel, Rustin B. Gates, Tze-ki Hon, Masato Kimura, Chaisung Lim, John D. Meehan, SJ, Tosh Minohara, Hiromi Mizuno, Tadashi Nakatani, Sochi Naraoka, Yoshiko Okamoto, Sumiko Otsubo, Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska, Caroline Rose, J. Charles Schencking, Chika Shinohara, Shusuke Takahara, and Sue C. Townsend.Table of ContentsPreface …ix Acknowledgements …xi List of Tables …xiv List of Figures …xv List of Volume Editors and Contributors …xviii Japan and the Wider World in the Decade of the Great War: Introduction …1 Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley Section 1: Diplomacy and Foreign Relations The Clash of Pride and Prejudice: The Immigration Issue and US-Japan Relations in the 1910s …21 Tosh Minohara From Alliance to Conference: The British Empire, Japan and Pacific Multilateralism, 1911-1921 …45 John D. Meehan Out with the New and in with the Old: Uchida Yasuya and the Great War as a Turning Point in Japanese Foreign Affairs …64 Rustin B. Gates The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War: Unprecedented Opportunities and Harsh Realities …83 J. Charles Schencking Securing the Maritime Trade: Triangular Frictions between the Merchant Marines of the US, UK and Japan …107 Masato Kimura From Cooperation to Conflict: Japanese-Russian Relations from the Formation of the Russo-Japanese Entente to the Siberian Intervention …130 Isao Chiba The Wilson Administration and the Mandate Question in the Pacific: Struggle among the Powers over the Disposition of Former German Colonies …149 Shusuke Takahara What Peace Meant to Japan: The Changeover at Paris in 1919 …168 Tadashi Nakatani A New Look at Japan’s Twenty-One Demands: Reconsidering Katō Takaaki’s Motives in 1915 …189 Sōchi Naraoka Japan as a Distant Friend: Scandinavian Countries Adjusting to Japan’s Emergence as a Great Power …211 Bert Edström The Making of a European Friend: Japan’s Recognition of Independent Poland …231 Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska Friends in Opposite Camps or Enemies from Afar: Japanese and Ottoman Turkish Relations in the Great War …257 Selçuk Esenbel Section 2: National and Transnational Networks Women on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Migration and the Colonization of Taiwan …281 Evan Dawley The Great War and Urban Crisis: Conceptualizing the Industrial Metropolis in Japan and Britain in the 1910s …301 Susan C. Townsend Gender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko’s Role in Institutionalizing Women’s Education in Japan …323 Chika Shinohara The Science Room as an Archive: Taishō Japan and WWI …349 Hiromi Mizuno Of World History and Great Men: A Japanese Village and its Worlds …372 Martin Dusinberre Buddhism and the Twenty-One Demands: The Politics Behind the International Movement of Japanese Buddhists …394 Yoshiko Okamoto Railroad Workers and World War I: Labor Hygiene and the Policies of Japanese National Railways …415 Chaisung Lim Sovereignty and Imperial Hygiene: Japan and the 1919 Cholera Epidemic in East Asia …439 Yuehtsen Juliette Chung Fighting on Two Fronts: Japan’s Involvement in the Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 …461 Sumiko Otsubo Changing Mutual Perceptions of China-Japan Relations in the 1910s in Chinese and Japanese Textbooks …481 Caroline Rose Global Competition for Power and Wealth: The Chinese Views of the World before and after the Great War …504 Tze-ki Hon Compiled Bibliography …521 Index …532

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Book SynopsisIn King of Battle: Artillery in World War I, a distinguished array of authors examines the centrepiece of battle in the Great War: artillery. Going beyond the usual tables of calibres and ranges, the contributors consider the organization and technology of artillery, as well as present aspects of training, doctrine, and other national idiosyncrasies. Artillery dominated the battlefields of World War I, and forever changed the military doctrine of war. No nation that had participated in significant ground combat would blithely assume that morale could ever replace firepower. The essays included in this volume explain how twelve countries, including all the major combatants, handled artillery and how it affected the Great War. Contributors include Filippo Cappellano, Boyd Dastrup, Edward J. Erickson, Bruce Gudmundsson, James Lyon, Sanders Marble, Janice E. McKenney, Dmitre Minchev, Andrey Pavlov, Kaushik Roy, Cornel and Ioan Scafes, John Schindler, and David Zabecki.Trade Review"The new book, King of Battle: Artillery in World War I, is an excellent international study of artillery during the war. Whether comparatively smaller cannons or mortars manned by infantrymen or huge railroad guns served by sailors, these pieces made themselves known on the battlefield, causing death and destruction and driving changes in fortifications and tactics. World War I artillery even “holds the dubious distinction of causing a new diagnosis, shellshock” (p. vii). While acknowledging that scholars have written about artillery since the war, editor Dr. Sanders Marble then states: “Overall, there are only a few books examining artillery in World War I on a comparative, international basis” (p. vii). Marble and his contributors seek to address the gap with this book." Major Peter L. Belmonte, Marine Corps History 3.1 (2017). "Bringing together some of the most renowned scholars from their respective national specializations, King of Battle provides a skillful and important study of World War I artillery. Alongside trenches and machine guns, artillery stands are at the core of the most evocative images of the conflict. As the most lethal category of weapons, artillery in many theaters literally dominated the war. In view of the importance of the topic, it perhaps seems surprising that more has not previously been done to encapsulate World War I artillery. The immensity of the topic helps explain the earlier absence. This work goes a long way toward filling a significant gap. [...] Each part of the book is excellent, and the work as a whole is even more impressive than the sum of its parts. [...] In sum, King of Battle packs a formidable punch—in keeping with its subject." Nicholas Sambaluk, Air University, in: H-War, H-Net Reviews, (2017).Table of ContentsContents Preface vii List of Maps, Figures and Tables viii List of Contributors xii 1 Introduction 1 Bruce Gudmundsson 2 The British Artillery in World War I 35 Sanders Marble 3 The French Artillery in the First World War 62 Bruce Gudmundsson 4 German Artillery in the First World War 101 David T. Zabecki 5 Austria-Hungary in the First World War 126 John R. Schindler 6 Bulgarian Artillery in the First World War 157 Dimitre Minchev 7 Ottoman Army Artillery in the First World War 173 Edward J. Erickson 8 Italian Artillery during the First World War: Its Structural, Organic, Tactical and Material Evolution 196 Filippo Cappellano 9 Serbia’s Artillery during the First World War 221 James Lyon 10 Russian Artillery 255 Andrey Pavlov 11 United States Field Artillery in World War I 281 Janice McKenney 12 Artillery of the Army in India in World War I 299 Kaushik Roy 13 Romanian Artillery in the First World War 324 Cornel and Ioan Scafeş 14 Conclusion: Artillery as a Result of World War I 360 Boyd Dastrup Index 377

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Book SynopsisWhen a devastated Belgium emerged from World War I, some of its leaders had high hopes that the upcoming negotiations would enable achievement of a long-cherished goal; annexing parts of the Netherlands lost in the final 1839 settlement which had established the country. Belgium’s strong historical and military arguments were bolstered by its courageous Great War image. Yet the Dutch proved ready and able to launch an energetic counterattack which ultimately stymied the Belgian campaign. This book explains why and how this happened, and demonstrates that small states are active participants in their own destinies, not just spectators or victims.Trade Review"The sources examined include extensive materials from the Dutch and Belgian archives, as might be expected, and additionally documents providing important insights regarding the United States, France, Britain, and Germany. This is particularly advantageous for giving the reader an informative and detailed vantage not only of the Dutch and Belgian participants but also of German strategists and planners whose prewar and wartime decisions influenced the relationship and of the perspectives and infighting among the most powerful of the victorious states which theoretically had the opportunity to address the Dutch-Belgian controversy while awash in the momentous and chaotic issues of the postwar world. Small Countries in a Big Power World is a valuable, interesting, and meaningful book that earns its place on the shelves of diplomatic and World War I history". Nicholas Sambaluk, in H-Net Reviews, August 2020.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Maps vi 1 Far Away Neighbors 1 2 A Nation and an Idea 17 3 The Low Countries and the Great War to 1916 37 4 The Low Countries and the Great War, 1916–1918 74 5 Crisis and Opportunity, 1918–1919 96 6 Versailles: The Offensive Begins 124 7 Versailles: The Counteroffensive 154 8 Victory and Defeat 182 9 Postscript 207 10 Meanings 227 Bibliography 243 Index 257

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Book SynopsisThe First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience aims to broaden the scope of resilience by looking at it from military, medical, personal and societal perspectives. The authors ask how war influenced the health – both physically and psychologically – of those fighting and attending the wounded, as well as the general health of the community of which they were part.

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Book SynopsisThis volume assembles the papers presented at the conference The International Context of the Galician Language Brotherhoods and the Nationality Question in Interwar Europe (Council of Galician Culture, Santiago de Compostela, October 2016). The different contributions, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives. They also address the topic from different scales, blending the global and transnational outlook with the view from below, from the local contexts, with particular attention to peripheral areas, whilst East European and West European nationalities are dealt with on an equal footing, covering from Iberian Galicia to the Caucasus. Contributors are: Bence Bari, Stefan Berger, Miguel Cabo, Stefan Dyroff, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Johannes Kabatek, Joep Leerssen, Ramón Máiz, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Malte Rolf, Ramón Villares, and Francesca Zantedeschi.Table of Contents List of Figures  1Introduction: the First World War and the Nationality Question: From Local to Glocal Perspectives  Xosé M. Núñez Seixas Part 1: The First World War, Transnational Action and the Principle of Nationality  2Cultural Mobility and Political Mobilization: Transnational Dynamics, National Action  Joep Leerssen  3Wilson’s Unexpected Friends: The Transnational Impact of the First World War on Western European Nationalist Movements  Xosé M. Núñez Seixas  4Nationalizing an Empire: The Bolsheviks, the Nationality Question, and Policies of Indigenization in the Soviet Union (1917–1927)  Malte Rolf  5Federalism in Multinational States: Otto Bauer's Theory  Ramón Máiz  6New Worlds Tackling on Side-tracks: The National Concepts of T.G. Masaryk and Oszkár Jászi during the First World War (1914–1919)  Bence Bari Part 2: Local Dynamics  7Micro-Nationalisms in Western Europe in the Wake of the First World War  Francesca Zantedeschi  8The Language Brotherhoods: European Echoes in the Development of Galician Nationalism (1916–1923)  Ramón Villares  9The Galician Language Brotherhoods and Minority Languages in Europe during the First World War  Johannes Kabatek Part 3: The Legacy of the First World War and the Nationality Question  10The Impact of the First World War on the (Re-)Shaping of National Histories on Europe  Stefan Berger  11From Nationalities to Minorities? The Transnational Debate on the Minority Protection System of the League of Nations, and Its Predecessors  Stefan Dyroff  12Agrarian Movements, the National Question, and Democracy in Europe, 1880–1945  Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto and Miguel Cabo  Index

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Book SynopsisHow did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars. Contributors are: Juan Pablo Artinian, Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Hernán M. Díaz, Norman Fraser Brown, Marcelo Huernos, Milagros Martínez-Flener, Norman Fraser Brown, Germán C. Friedmann, María Inés Tato, and Stefan Rinke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables Notes on Contributors Immigrants and World Wars in South America An Introduction  María Inés Tato 1 Fighting on the Home Front Mobilizing European Citizens for the First World War in Latin America  Stefan Rinke 2 The French in Buenos Aires during the First World War  Hernán M. Díaz 3 The Mobilization of the European Communities in Chile during the First World War  Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz 4 The Austro-Hungarian Community in Chile during the First World War  Milagros Martínez-Flener 5 The Armenian Diaspora in Argentina Facing the First World War and the Postwar Genocide, Trauma, and Reconstruction  Juan Pablo Artinian 6 A Return of Military Migration: The Scots of the British Volunteers of Latin America, 1914–1918  Norman Fraser Brown 7 Europeans in Latin America and the Memory of the Great War  María Inés Tato 8 The German Speakers of Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s  Germán C. Friedmann 9 Disputes over Italianness Italian Immigration in Argentina in the Face of Fascism  Marcelo Huernos 10 Final Reflections  María Inés Tato Bibliography Index

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