Mark Connelly. The Great War: Memory and Ritual Commemoration in the City and East London 1916–1939. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New Series.) Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell. 2002. Pp. xii, 259. $70.00

2002 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
War Memory ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The City

A “Scientific Expedition” to Gallipoli

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salim Tamari
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Young Turks ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Constitutional Revolution ◽  
The City

This chapter looks at the period of the constitutional revolution as a prelude to the Great War, interpreted by two eminent local historians of the life of Nablus: Muhammad Izzat Darwazeh and Ihsan al-Nimr. It illustrates two contrasting perspectives on how the city potentates, and how its middle classes and artisans reacted to the removal of Sultan Abdul Hamid from power. What is striking in this “farcical moment” was the strength of support for the old regime by the city's merchants and artisans, and the general hostility toward the new freedoms promised by the Young Turks. Nimr attributes this hostility to the substantial autonomy enjoyed by the Nablus region during the earlier periods of Ottoman rule.

Politics of the Bayamón Bloc and the Partido Socialista

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirwin R. Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Great War ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The City

This chapter continues examining the relationships between anarchists and their sometime-allies, sometime-antagonists in the emerging Partido Socialista (PS) in the 1910s. Here, the chapter considers the agitations arising from the radical bloc in the city of Bayamón. The Bayamón anarchists continued their agitation throughout the 1910s, sometimes working with Socialists but also becoming less conciliatory and more rigid in their quest for an anarchist social revolution. By 1918, anarchists centered in the city took an increasingly hard line against all aspects of the PS—especially concerning the relevance of electoral politics for the future of Puerto Rican workers, the appropriate responses to militarism, and the new military draft for the Great War that some PS leaders such as the elected Socialist senator Santiago Iglesias supported.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Blobaum
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Capital City ◽  
First Year ◽  
Great War ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The One ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The City

This introductory chapter provides an overview of Warsaw during the Great War. Warsaw entered the war not as a capital city but as the third city of the Russian Empire. In the war's first year, Warsaw witnessed massive shifts in population as a consequence of mobilization, evacuations, deportations, and male labor out-migration on the one hand, and the arrival of refugees and wounded soldiers in the other. By the second winter of the war, the city experienced rapidly escalating incidences of starvation, disease, death, and conflict over the increasingly scarce resources necessary to sustain human life. The chapter then compares Warsaw's experience of the Great War to that of the Second World War.

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