Description
Book SynopsisEmpires, Soldiers, and Citizens 2/e offers a vivid range of eyewitness perspectives - from female munitions workers to Indian troops in France - which explore the social, cultural, and military dimensions of World War I. This second edition includes added material to reflect the very latest historical thinking.
Trade Review“This accessible addition to source material on WW I should facilitate a focused yet general understanding of the war’s incredible scope without overwhelming readers with the detailed minutiae often found in primary source material. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates; general readers.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)
Table of ContentsList of Maps xiii
Chronology xv
Preface xix
I The Mood of 1914 1
War Comes to France 6
1. A Nation Suddenly United 7
2. We Shall Be without Fear 12
3. On the Way to the Front 14
Russia: For the Tsar and Motherland 15
4. The View from St. Petersburg 15
5. Russia’s Popular Mood 18
Germany: For the Kaiser and Fatherland 18
6. A Just War against England 19
7. The Socialist Alternative 21
8. German Socialists Support the War 22
9. Thoughts on Mobilization 23
Britain and the Empire Mobilize 23
10. Popular Hysteria 24
11. Recruiting for War 26
12. A British Student in Arms 29
13. A Canadian Clergyman at War 31
14. The View from the Cameroons 33
II War on the Western Front 37
Adapting to Trench Warfare 40
1. Life Different as Possible 41
2. The Attack 45
3. War is Like a Big Picnic 49
4. All the World Over a Boy is a Boy, a Mother a Mother 51
5. War Diary of the Seaforth Highlanders 53
6. A Working Party 55
7. A Canadian in the Trenches 56
8. Report on the Afternoon’s Actions 58
9. Indian Units in France 59
Commitment, Duty or Disillusion: German Students Assess the War 61
10. The Readiness to Make a Sacrifice 62
11. My Life is no Longer My Own 64
12. I Look upon Death and Call upon Life 65
13. Here One becomes another Man 66
14. Copse 125 67
Humor and Morale 69
15. War 70
16. Ten German Pioneers 71
17. Rats 72
III War to the East and South 73
The Eastern Front 77
1. Tannenberg 78
2. Bad Things are Good Things under Adverse Circumstances 79
3. Not a Beaten Army 83
4. The Russian Turmoil 84
5. War in the East 85
6. Serbia’s War 86
7. The Army behind Barbed Wire 88
8. Among Prisoners of War 90
War in the Mediterranean 93
9. The Italian Front 93
10. Gallipoli 97
11. The ANZAC Experience 99
12. The Turkish Defense 101
13. Palestine Campaigns 104
Africa and Asia 113
14. The Use of Native Troops 113
15. A Doctor in Damaraland 116
16. Petition to King George V 117
17. The Fall of Tsingtao 119
18. Japan’s Twenty-One Demands 121
IV Combat in the Machine Age 125
Technology and the Battlefield 128
1. The Dominance of the Machine Gun 128
2. Gas Warfare 130
3. Gas at the Front 132
4. Tanks at Ypres 133
5. Shell Shock 136
6. Picture of Desolation 137
The Naval War 139
7. Battle at Sea 140
8. Rusting at Anchor 142
9. Jutland 143
10. Adventures of the U- 202 145
The Aerial War 148
11. Zeppelin 148
12. Air Raids 150
13. The Importance of the Airplane 152
14. A Superior Pilot 154
15. In the Clouds above Baghdad 156
V Mobilizing the Home Front 159
The State 163
1. The War and British Liberties 164
2. The State as the Supreme God 165
3. Germany’s Government at War 166
4. Censorship 168
5. War, Prostitution, and Venereal Disease in Germany 172
6. The Russian State 175
7. Russian Education 176
The Economy 178
8. Economic Exhaustion in Southeastern Europe 179
9. Germany’s Food Supply 182
10. A Bremen Family’s Suffering 185
11. No Meat in Berlin 186
12. Workers’ Diets 188
13. Practicing Strict Economy 192
Women 194
14. Women at Work 195
15. A New Role for Women? 196
16. Women at Munition Making 204
17. Women’s National Service in Germany 205
18. Keep Your Eyes Open 206
19. We will Need the Woman as Spouse and Mother 208
20. Something Disturbing about Female Labour 209
21. A Woman in the Service of the Tsar 209
22. Bitter Wounds 215
VI Whose Nation? 217
Duty, Sacrifice and Morality 222
1. The New Patriotism 223
2. War Profits 224
3. You are More Prone to Hatred 227
4. A Scandalous Trial 228
Religion 230
5. The Sacred Union in France 232
6. A British Clergyman at the Front 233
7. The Religion of the Inarticulate 235
8. Spiritual Consciousness 237
9. A German Rabbi in the Field 239
10. Russian Jews Demand End to Discrimination 240
Race and Ethnicity 243
11. Ethnic Minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire 244
12. The Fate of Turkey’s Armenians 249
13. War and the “Colour Bar” 252
14. German Subversion in London 258
War of Ideas 262
15. Britain’s Destiny and Duty 263
16. Manifesto of German University Professors 265
17. Alleged German Outrages 266
18. Explaining German Atrocities 271
19. Propaganda 273
VII Dissent, Mutiny and Revolution 277
The Cost of Conscience 284
1. Is War Incompatible with Right? 285
2. Britain’s Parliament Debates Conscientious Objection 287
3. Pacifism—A Political Crime? 289
Authority Challenged 291
4. Working-Class Resistance in Britain 293
5. Strikes in Britain 296
6. The French Mutinies 299
7. A Socialist Appeal to Workers 301
8. A Warning from the SPD 304
9. Mutiny and Revolution in the German Fleet 307
10. The Case for India 313
11. Rebellion in Ireland 314
Revolution in Russia 315
12. Lenin’s View of the War 316
13. Stupidity or Treason? 318
14. Upheaval in Petrograd and in the Army 320
15. Revolution at the Front 321
VIII Legacies 327
1. War Cemeteries 333
2. The Dead 339
3. Canadian War Memorials 340
4. Local War Museums 341
5. Spiritualism 344
6. The Sacred Work 345
7. Training the Disabled 348
8. The Lost Generation 350
9. French Veterans’ Appeal 352
10. An African Veteran Reflects 353
11. Africa Petitions Britain’s King 354
Source References 357
Suggestions for Further Reading 365
Index 377
