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Title Other fronts, other wars? : First World War studies on the eve of the centennial / edited by Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger, Gunda Barth-Scalmani
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 521 pages)
Series History of Warfare ; 100
History of warfare ; v. 100.
Contents Introduction: Approaching the Centenary 1914-2014 / Matthias Egger, Joachim Bürgschwentner and Gunda Barth-Scalmani. -- Part 1: Diverging Front Experiences. -- 1. Lethal Journey between Four Fronts: First World War Experiences of the Reichstag's Deputies / Nicolas Patin. -- 2. Combating Desertion and Voluntary Surrender in the Russian Army During the First World War / Paul Simmons. -- 3. Baptism by Snow: The Ottoman Experience of Winter Warfare During the First World War / Altay Atlı. -- 4. "Our common colonial voices": Canadian Nurses, Patient Relations, and Nation on Lemnos / Andrea McKenzie. -- Part 2: Towards a Cultural History of Captivity. -- 5. Brucken, Beethoven und Baumkuchen: German and Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War and the Japanese Home Front / Mahon Murphy. -- 6. Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity / Kate Ariotti. -- 7. The Camp Newspaper Nedelja as a Reflection of the Experience of Russian Prisoners of War in Austria-Hungary / Christian Steppan. -- Part 3: Occupation on the Eastern War Theatre. -- 8. Two Kinds of Occupation?German and Austro-Hungarian Economic Policy in Congress Poland, 1915-1918 / Stephan Lehnstaedt. -- 9. A School of Violence and Spatial Desires? Austro-Hungarian Experiences of War in Eastern Europe, 1914-1918 / Wolfram Dornik. -- 10. We and Homeland: German Occupation, Lithuanian Discourse, and War Experience in Ober Ost / Andrea Grifffante. -- Part 4: Medical History and War Relief. -- 11. Serbia as a Health Threat to Europe: The Wartime Typhus Epidemic, 1914-1915 / Indira Duraković. -12. Other Fronts, Other Diseases? Comparisons of Front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment / Philipp Rauh and Livia Prüll. -- 13. Who Provided Care for Wounded and Disabled Soldiers? Conceptualizing State-Civil Society Relationship in First World War Austria / Ke-chin Hsia. -- Part 5: War at Home: Gender, Space and Entertainment. -- 14. Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front / Rudolf Kučera. -- 15. The Transformation of Local Public Spheres: German, Belgian and Dutch Border Towns during the First World War Compared / Bernhard Liemann. -- 16. War on Stage. Home Front Entertainment in European Metropolises 1914-1918 / Eva Krivanec. -- Part 6: The Shaping of Attitudes and Opinions. -- 17. Strange Fronts, Strange Wars: Germany's Battle for "Islam" in the Middle East during the First World War, and British Reactions / Tilman Lüdke. -- 18 War between Allies: Polish and Ukrainian Intellectuals 1914-1923 / Maciej Górny. -- Part 7: Remembering the First World War. -- 19. In the Name of Father and Son: Remembering the First World War in Serbia / Katarina Todić. -- 20. The Memory Landscape of the South-Western Front: Cultural Legacy, Promotion of Tourism, or European Heritage? / Gunda Barth-Scalmani
Summary Other Fronts, Other Wars? offers insights into areas beyond the Western Front covering aspects such as captivity, occupation of the Eastern war theatre, medical history and war relief, home-front, gender, and the shaping of attitudes during and after this war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Medical care
Military campaigns
Prisoners of war
Social aspects
Weltkrieg 1914-1918
Soziale Situation
Medizinische Versorgung
Form Electronic book
Author Bürgschwentner, Joachim, editor
Egger, Matthias (Historian), editor.
Barth-Scalmani, Gunda, 1958- editor, author.
ISBN 9789004279513
9004279512
Other Titles First World War studies on the eve of the centennial