Defence Against the Indefensible: The Gas Mask, the State and British Culture during and after the First World War

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Grayzel
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Gas Mask ◽  
British Culture ◽  
First World

The State of Siege in Fact: The First World War

2017 ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Clinton Rossiter ◽  
William J. Quirk
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

More Beautiful Than Necessary

Vulcan ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
David Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
British Culture ◽  
First World

What was it about the First World War that brought on Modernism? Like the simplified poppy form and the sword-within-a-cross which both came to memorialize the First World War in British culture, materiel from that era—shells, rifle stocks, helmets, bullets, bunkers— have a thoroughly modern, almost Bauhaus aesthetic. This was not entirely new in the history of weapons; the common soldier had often fought with unadorned weapons. In this war, however, there was nothing else to see; soldiers could safely regard only the sky, their comrades, their weapons and—viewed through a periscope’s framing—a landscape stripped of nature’s adornments. The inference is that this limited vision and consequent focus on unadorned form were key to the modern aesthetic taking hold.

Philosophical idealism and international politics: Bosanquet, Treitschke and war

1975 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Savigear
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
First World War ◽  
The State ◽  
General Interest ◽  
World War ◽  
International Theory ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Bernard Bosanquet spent the First World War at his cottage in Oxshott, in Surrey, and from here he measured the implications of the conflict for his philosophy of the state. The result of this reflection is available to us in the letters which he wrote during the war, and a variety of lectures and papers. His ideas, therefore, have a general interest to students of international theory.

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