A Fractured Service: Frances Webster and The Great War, 1914–1918
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Born to privilege in Boston, Frances Webster, like her peers volunteered overseas with the American Red Cross as a nurse's aide. Where the activities of other Americans during the First World War is characterized as a “culture of coercive volunterism,” Webster's reflected a more complex mixture of altruism and tourism. Her history of participation in the First World War suggests historians need more multifaceted frameworks to explain Americans' First World War service.
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2015 ◽
Vol 27
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pp. 617-618
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1991 ◽
Vol 23
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pp. 794-795
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