World War One: The Crisis in European History--The Role of the Military Historian

1993 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Howard
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The Military

Antecedents

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ayako Bennette
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
German Society ◽  
World War ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Military ◽  
Broad Overview

This chapter gives a broad overview of developments within the main areas of psychiatry, the military, and pacifism and provides the necessary background to understand the conditions prevailing in Germany leading up to 1914. It highlights the rising fortunes and expanding purview of psychiatry in the decades before World War I and references the limits of describing the trends as medicalization. It also explores the general prestige of the military and the role of pacifism in imperial German society. The chapter looks at August Fauser and Erwin Ackerknecht's estimations of psychiatry around 1900, which inhabited opposite ends of the opinion spectrum. It analyses attitudes toward the insane that had been lumped with the larger category of the poor over the nineteenth century.

100 Years Ago: A Bibliographical Calendar of Diplomacy and International Law: In the Years 1914 and 1915

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Schwietzke ◽  
Peter Macalister-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
First World

This Bibliographical Calendar focuses on a general armed conflict within Europe that spread to most parts of the world. It started during the second decade of the twentieth century. In this context the present Calendar offers an overview of the chronology leading up to the First World War. It is also a documented survey of official transactions relating to the World War with particular attention to the sources of record. The main focus of the work is on diplomatic acts of the belligerent and neutral parties that accompanied the military dimension of the conflict.The Calendar assumes the form of a compilation of related kinds of information situated between a bibliography and a repertory, with the aim of elucidating the course of World War One from the perspectives of international law and diplomacy.

Between dominance and decline: status anxiety and great power rivalry

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
TUDOR A. ONEA
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
Great Power ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Emergent States

AbstractThis article investigates the role of status considerations in the response of dominant powers to the rise of emergent states. Accordingly, the hypothesis explored is that dominant actors are prone to fear that they will lose their upper rank, and, due to this status anxiety, resist the efforts of emergent powers to match or surpass them. The article begins by explaining why political actors deem status important and puts forward a theory of status anxiety in world politics. The more pronounced is this anxiety across status dimensions (economic and military capabilities as well as prestige), the higher the likelihood of conflict. This argument is then tested against competing theories of dominant power behaviour in two cases: the relations between France and Britain from the 1740s to Napoleon and those between Britain and Germany from the 1880s to World War One.

scholarly journals Declining the interpreter’s role in World War I

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter James Cowley
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Conflict Zones

In this article I will examine autobiographical and fictionalised accounts of World War One by three French interpreters: the writer André Maurois, the painter Paul Maze, and the cartoonist Hansi. All three worked as officiers de liaison with the British Expeditionary Force, discharging their duties in remarkably divergent ways and accounting for them equally differently. My focus will be on how their accounts can be read as representations of the role of the interpreter, and at the same time how the figure of the interpreter, underpinned by the assumption of neutrality, is deployed to represent other activities in conflict zones. 

scholarly journals Destinies of editions about the Russian-Japanese War in the collections of pre-revolutionary military libraries

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
A. M. Panchenko ◽  
Yu. V. Timofeeva
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The Military ◽  
First World

The relevance of the topic is due to the great role of military-historical literature and libraries as its repositories in forming the historical memory ofthe people, which is important for ensuring the spiritual security of the country. The article is the first to examine publications on the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905 from the book collection of the “House of Officers of the Novosibirsk Garrison” of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, got from other military libraries. The purpose of the article is to identify the fate of military libraries. Research tasks are: 1) to calculate the number of publications on the Russian-Japanese War in the book collection of the “House of Officers...”; 2)to reconstruct their repertoire; 3) to determine libraries which collections they were originally included in. The study methodologically bases on historic, objective, systematic principles, localization of historical facts. Methods used are that of source studying, comparative and statistical. The work is done on a wide representative source base, constituted from pre-revolutionary publications of the “Houses of Officers...,” periodicals, regulatory and legal documents of the military department. 21 catalogs of officer libraries were analyzed, confirming the presence of issues on the Russian-Japanese War in them. As a result of the study, 92 pre-revolutionary works in 100 copies dedicated to the Russian-Japanese War were revealed in the library of the House of Officers. For 66 of them in 71 copies the former ownership of 18 military libraries was established. Their repertoire was reconstructed. The results show that the First World War, which destroyed the personnel of the Russian army, became an involuntary cause of the ruin of ­military libraries, having left them without supervision in the places of the previous quartering of troops and deprived them of officers - enthusiasts of ­librarianship. The revolutions of 1917, radical transformations of Soviet power and the Civil War completed the ruin of the tsarist army military libraries, which ceased to exist as independent book collections. The study has expanded the understanding of the state role in military-historical works’ dissemination and military libraries’ collections replenishment.

scholarly journals COURTS MARTIAL AND THE CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE OF THE ROMANIAN ARMY IN WORLD WAR ONE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (72) ◽  
pp. 365-380
Author(s):  
Liviu CORCIU
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Military Justice ◽  
Normal People ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Preemptive Effect ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Day By Day

The century that passed over the memories of the Great War, as it was called in the era, should allow all of us, no matter what side we had chosen at that time, to think on allaspects of the day-by-day life in the frontline. And to admit as well, that not all the soldiers and officers who had taken part in, were heroes. They were normal people, with hearts and feelings, trapped in an abnormal environment, fighting for their side of “King and Country” against all destructive means of the industrial war. So, it was of great importance to maintain a proper discipline among those troops which were sent day after day in slaughter attacks. And for this reason, was used the military justice and the Code of military justice, named differently by country, but having the same role: to support the war effort. One of the supportive elements was the preemptive effect, the deterrence of any potential act of breaking the discipline. Equally counted the way this contribution came into effect.Keywords: military justice; discipline; court martial; world war; war effort.

scholarly journals Sajtóirányítás és háborús propaganda az I. világháború idõszakában

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-122
Author(s):  
Lajos Olasz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
World War ◽  
War Coverage ◽  
The Press ◽  
War Propaganda ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Military

In the 1910-s, press flourished in Hungary. However, as a result of the political crisis preceding the World War, then the outburst of the war, there were significant restrictions introduced in the field of the press, while after the start of the fights, compulsory censorship was introduced. The Military Supervisory Commission was taking over the control of mass communication to an ever increasing extent. Publishing papers infringing military interests with their news were suspended for shorter or longer periods. The newly set up Press Command Post fulfilled the tasks of publishing military information and supervising war coverage. This organisation not only provided newscasts, but also monitored the international press and involved the representatives of the most varied art forms (writers, painters, even film producers) in the war propaganda. In the heartland, interest towards military events and at the front, towards home conditions increased more and more, however, the information flow was considerably restricted both here and there. Due to the prolongation of the war, and the increase in difficulties and losses, the role of the propaganda activity performed among the soldiers and within the heartland became more and more important. Many people considered that all-in propaganda, also received a decisive role in the all-in war.

Charles H. McCormick, Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917–1921. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. ix + 244 pp. $37.50 cloth.

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 163-165
Author(s):  
Steve Rosswurm
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Federal Bureau ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Federal Bureau Of Investigation ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Field Office ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Military

Very well-researched and well-written, this book provides an excellent discussion of the activities of federal surveillance agencies in the Pittsburgh mill district (western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, and eastern Ohio). However, Seeing Reds is neither about surveillance agencies nor the Pittsburgh Left per se, but rather about their intersection: the “federal government's effort to define, understand, and suppress leftists” during the period of World War One. It begins with an excellent survey of the early history of federal surveillance agencies, including the Bureau of Investigation (BI), the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Military Intelligence Division, and the American Protective League. McCormick pays special attention to the BI, the original name of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He looks closely at four men who, as special agents in the Pittsburgh Field Office, played a particularly important part in his story. Each had a background in either police and/or private investigative work or a college degree and/or legal training.

Resénégalisation and the Representation of Black African Troops during World War One

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rechniewski
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Black African

It is only very recently that recognition has been given to the massive and possibly decisive contribution made by troops from France’s Empire to its ultimate victory in both World Wars. The ‘rediscovery’ of their role afforded them belated acknowledgement in the commemorations of the centenary of World War One. The original plans for the centenary barely acknowledged the role of colonial troops, an omission challenged by Rachid Bouchareb and Pascal Blanchard who successfully proposed the addition of the commemorative project ‘Frères d’armes’. This rediscovery invites reflection on what factors may have contributed to the long neglect of their participation in combat. This chapter explores the immediate historical context of the deployment of one segment of these colonial troops during World War One: the ...

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