Marigolds and Poppies

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Peter Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Great War ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War

India is a nation in which paradoxically, the past is omnipresent but the age of any given structure can be annoyingly indeterminate. It is a place where the past can be both absolutely present and frustratingly remote; in which versions of the past co-exist; in which they can contend without necessary contradiction, though sometimes bringing risk of denunciation, controversy and even death. It is a culture in which layers of meaning and significance accrete around historical events – even historical events recorded in the daily newspaper. India takes its many pasts seriously – but can ignore aspects of its history in ways unthinkable in other societies. The Great War of 1914-1918 is an inescapable part of the history of Australia or New Zealand, and even in Britain remains a part of the currency of everyday speech and popular culture. In the nations of South Asia, by contrast, the Great War remains obscure and unimportant....

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-214
Author(s):  
Michael Geheran
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
German Identity ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War

The book closes with a short glimpse into the history of Jewish veterans after 1945, as the survivors of the camps returned to Germany, outlining ruptures and continuities in comparison with the pre-Nazi period. Jewish veterans imposed different narratives on their experiences under National Socialism. As the past receded into the distance, it became a concern for the survivors to engage with the past, which they variously looked back on with nostalgia, disillusionment, or bitter anger. Although National Socialism threatened to erase everything that Jewish veterans of World War I had achieved and sacrificed, sought to destroy the identity they had constructed as soldiers in the service of the nation, as well as bonds with gentile Germans that had been forged under fire during the war, threatened to sever their connections to the status they had earned as soldiers of the Great War and defenders of the fatherland, their minds, their values and their character remained intact. Jewish veterans preserved their sense of German identity.

scholarly journals War Elephants and Early Tanks: A Transepochal Comparison of Ancient and Modern Warfare

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaric Searle
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Great War ◽  
Muscular Power ◽  
Counter Measures ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Warfare ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Protective Armour

AbstractAlthough scholars have in the past dismissed the claim that war elephants were the »tanks of the ancient world«, a closer examination of the similarities between the two weapons reveals some remarkable parallels. In fact, a comparison shows that many of the counter-measures in anti-elephant warfare in antiquity had parallels in anti-tank warfare in the Great War. More importantly, the upward spiral of increased weapon power, followed by defensive countermeasures, then an increase in the protective armour added to the »weapons system«, is a process which can be observed in the evolution of both war elephants and early tanks. The comparison raises questions about the dominant narrative in the history of the tank, largely instigated by J. F. C. Fuller, namely, that its invention represented a revolution in the history of warfare since it spelled the transition from animal and human muscular power to machine power. This article seeks to explain why Fuller always avoided drawing comparisons between war elephants and tanks; and, it argues that specific types of military phenomena can be identified which recur in different historical epochs.

scholarly journals Censorship and Surveillance in the First World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Ross Webb
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
First World War ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

  Review of Jared Davidson, Dead Letters. A history of state censorship, the New Zealand home front, and undelivered mail during the Great War.  

Review of A school history of the Great War.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-176
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
School History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War

Jumbos and Jumping Devils

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha P R
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Social History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

Jumbos and Jumping Devils is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and popular culture. The domain of analysis is entirely novel and opens up a bolder approach of laying a new field of historical enquiry of South Asia. Trawling through an extraordinary set of sources such as colonial and post-colonial records, newspaper reports, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, photographs, and oral interviews, the author brings out a fascinating account of the transnational landscape of physical cultures, human and animal performers, and the circus industry. This book should be of interest to a wide range of readers from history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies to analysts of history of performance and sports in the subcontinent.

scholarly journals Irish consequences of the Great War

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (156) ◽  
pp. 643-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Great War ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Public Response ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Postponement

AbstractIt is now widely admitted that the Great War was also Ireland’s war, with profound consequences for every element of Irish life after 1914. Its impact may be discerned in aberrant aspects of Ireland’s demographic, economic and social history, as well as in the more familiar political and military convulsions of the war years. This article surveys recent scholarship, assesses statistical evidence of the war’s social and economic impact (both positive and negative), and explores its far-reaching political repercussions. These include the postponement of expected civil conflict, the unexpected occurrence of an unpopular rebellion in 1916, and public response to the consequent coercion. The speculative final section outlines a number of plausible outcomes for Irish history in the absence of war, concluding that no single counterfactual history of a warless Ireland is defensible.

History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Naval Operations. Vol. 3

1924 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 546
Author(s):  
D. W. B. ◽  
Julian S. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Naval Operations ◽  
The Great War
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