The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On. Edited by Jay Winter.Columbia: University of Missouri Press; Kansas City, MO: National World War I Museum, 2009. Pp. xvi+217. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).The First World War: A Concise Global History. By William Kelleher Storey. Exploring World History. Edited by, John McNeill and Jerry Bentley.Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. Pp. xii+193. $34.95.

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-631
Author(s):  
Heather Jones
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
World History ◽  
First World War ◽  
Global History ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

The Orthodox Church of Cyprus, Enosis politics and the British authorities during the First World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-153
Author(s):  
Anastasia Yiangou
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This article examines relations between the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and the British colonial government during the First World War. I argue that the Great War constituted the first turning point in Church-State relations during colonial rule in Cyprus which, following other developments, finally collapsed during the 1950s. I discuss how the dynamic of the Enosis movement for the union of Cyprus with Greece was bolstered during the Great War. This in turn, the article will show, had significant repercussions on the attitudes of the Orthodox Church and the British authorities, transformed their relationship and opened the way for future developments.

Strachan and the Great War: A Lifelong Quest

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-604
Author(s):  
Holger H. Herwig
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Total War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The University ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Sir Hew Strachan of the University of St Andrews is the doyen of World War I studies. He approached his work from a serious multinational, multilingual, and comparative perspective. He was never afraid to challenge well-established interpretations and to add fresh analyses of concepts ranging from total war to trench warfare. He was always keen to include diplomacy, politics, imperialism, industrialization, and the sinews of war in his writings. From ‘origins’ to ‘consequences’, Strachan led his readers through the challenging shoals of Great War studies. One can hardly wait for the second instalment of his opus, The First World War: No Quarter.

Death Drives

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Freud ◽  
Proust
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World ◽  
Destructive Potential

Peter Brooks’s essay is on the Great War and its effect on Freud and Proust, in particular on their interpretations of sadism. Brooks argues that after the First World War, both Freud and Proust came to view sadism as independent of pleasure. Brooks contends that sadism is a crucial notion, one that forced writers in the post-World War I era to grapple with the destructive potential of humanity.

1871-1918

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-211
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Army ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Photographic Essay ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Zusammenfassung Peter Walkenhorst, Nation – Volk – Rasse. Radikaler Nationalismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1890-1914 (Bruno Thoß ) André Tiebel, Die Entstehung der Schutztruppengesetze für die deutschen Schutzgebiete Deutsch-Ostafrika, Deutsch-Südwestafrika und Kamerun (1884-1898) (Christian Senne) Eberhardt Kettlitz, Afrikanische Soldaten aus deutscher Sicht seit 1871 (Ulrich van der Heyden) Thomas Morlang, Askari und Fitafita. »Farbige« Söldner in den deutschen Kolonien (Winfried Speitkamp) Matthew S. Seligmann, Spies in Uniform. British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War (Stephen Schröder) Naval Intelligence from Germany. The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914. Ed. by Matthew S. Seligmann (Nicolas Wolz) Michael B. Barrett, Operation Albion. The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands (Gerhard P. Groß) Jeff Lipkes, Rehearsals. The German Army in Belgium, August 1914 (Martin Moll) Alexander Watson, Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918 (Christian Stachelbeck) Christine Brocks, Die bunte Welt des Krieges. Bildpostkarten aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg 1914-1918 (Christoph Nübel) Anton Holzer, Das Lächeln der Henker. Der unbekannte Krieg gegen die Zivilbevölkerung 1914-1918 (Markus Pöhlmann) David C. Homsher, American Battlefields of World War I, Château-Thierry – Then and Now. A Guidebook, Anthology and Photographic Essay (Heiner Bröckermann) Der Erste Weltkrieg in der populären Erinnerungskultur. Hrsg. von Barbara Korte, Sylvia Paletschek und Wolfgang Hochbruck (Hiram Kümper)

scholarly journals GLOBALISING AND LOCALISING THE GREAT WAR

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 233-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
First World War ◽  
Global History ◽  
World War ◽  
National History ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

ABSTRACTThis article is intended to suggest an approach to the global history of the First World War that can provide a method of managing the potentially unwieldy concept of global conflict by understanding it through the war's impact on localities. By concentrating on four relatively small but significant cities; Oxford in England, Halifax in Nova Scotia, Jerusalem in Palestine and Verdun in eastern France, which experienced the war in very different ways, it looks at both the movement of people and things and the symbolic interconnectivities that made the war a ‘world war’. This local focus helps challenge both the primacy of self-contained national history and the focus on the violent interaction of the opposing sides which are the more normal ways of narrating the war. It does not deny the usefulness of these traditional structures of narration and explanation but suggests that there are different and complementary ways the war can be viewed, which create different emphasis and chronologies.

scholarly journals Unorthodox Professors: World War One in Videogames and on YouTube

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36
Author(s):  
Jordan Dean Crocker
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
First World War ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Historical Representations ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

The purpose of this article is to analyze the videogames Battlefield 1 and Victoria II and the YouTube channels Crash Course World History and The Great War in order to show how these forms of media represent the First World War. Given the centennial of the First World War in 2014 and the end of the centennial occurring in 2018, there has been increased attention brought to the First World War, and therefore more representations of the war have been occurring in these media. Specifically, these representations affect how younger audiences view the war and will impact their knowledge of it.  Although there has been scholarship in game studies, historians should engage more often with videogames and YouTube in order to ensure the wider public is receiving adequate historical representations from these media. 

Going Barefoot in Warsaw during the First World War

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Robert Blobaum
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This article attempts to demonstrate how an entirely unexplored and seemingly unimportant episode, at least to grand historical narratives, can open up multiple lines of inquiry. In the course of my research on everyday life in Warsaw during the First World War, I came across an intriguing phenomenon—one might even call it a movement—of going “barefoot” (boso in Polish) during the last two years of the war. Initiated by students from Warsaw’s institutions of higher education as a means of symbolic protest against collapsed living standards, the barefoot movement would quickly spread to other groups. As it did, it generated a discourse that revealed existing cultural, political, ethnic, social, and gender-based tensions among an urban population made destitute by the exactions of the Great War. Having mined Warsaw’s daily press for any kind of reference to the barefoot movement, I have attempted in these pages to make some sense of this fleeting phenomenon by linking analysis of social and political unrest, metropolitan cultural debates, and the quotidian economic realities of wartime.

The Composition of the Rhodesia Native Regiment during the First World War: A Look at the Evidence

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 283-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Stapleton
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Regional Origin ◽  
Southern Rhodesia ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Several scholars of the First World War in Southern Africa have briefly looked at the composition of the Rhodesia Native Regiment (RNR), which was formed in Southern Rhodesia in 1916 and fought in the German East Africa campaign until the armistice in November 1918. According to Peter McLaughlin, who has written the most about Zimbabwe and the Great War, “[b]y 1918 seventy-five per cent of the 2360 who passed through the ranks of the regiment were ‘aliens;’ over 1000 came from Nyasaland. The Rhodesia Native Regiment had thus lost its essentially ‘Rhodesian’ character.” This would seem to suggest that because the RNR had many soldiers who originated from outside Zimbabwe, this regiment was somehow less significant to Zimbabwe's World War I history. While McLaughlin admits that “the evidence on the precise composition of the Rhodesia Native Regiment is not available”, he claims that “approximately 1800 aliens served in the unit.”In a recent book on Malawi and the First World War, Melvin Page agrees with McLaughlin's estimate that “probably more than 1000 Malawians joined the Rhodesian Native Regiment.” However, Page freely admits that the evidence on which this approximation is based is far from conclusive. By looking at the available evidence, particularly a previously unutilized regimental nominal roll in the Zimbabwe National Archives, it is possible to gain a clearer picture of the composition of the only African unit from Zimbabwe to have fought in the First World War. This analysis will not only deal with the nationality of the soldiers, which is what the two previous writers focused on, but also their ethnic/regional origin and pre-enlistment occupations.

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