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Published November 1995
Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Coetzee, F. & M. (eds)

Subject: History: World War I

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eBook available Published May 2017
Between Empire and Continent

British Foreign Policy before the First World War

Rose, A.

Historians have commonly interpreted Britain’s attempts to break through older alliances of European states before World War I as a reaction to aggressive German foreign policy. This groundbreaking political history demonstrates that British strategy instead arose from the complex interplay of national, continental and imperial considerations.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

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eBook available Published November 2018
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe

Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion recaptures the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life through the experiences of both soldiers and civilians during World War I. This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published August 2018
Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

Bardach, B.

Care and Carnage on the Eastern Front documents the day-to-day life of a doctor serving on the Eastern Front between 1914-1918. Bardach’s meticulous records offer a personal glimpse into the critical first weeks of fighting as well as the ultimate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published May 2022
Continental Transfers

Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

The cultural and political connections between Spain, Italy and Argentina developed complex transnational transfers over the course of two World Wars. Bringing together scholars from all three nations, Continental Transfers configures a multidirectional approach to the nations’ reciprocal exchange using new theoretical ground to understand the development links to the construction of national and supranational identities, such as Latinism and Hispanism.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

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eBook available Published May 2017
Daily Life in the Abyss

Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

Tachjian, V.

Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

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eBook available Published November 2022
Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

Sturgess, C.

Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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Forthcoming February 2025
The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I

Grandits, H., Murber, I., & Tyran, K. (eds)

A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
Published November 2003
Evidence, History and the Great War

Historians and the Impact of 1914-18

Braybon, G. (ed)

Subject: History: World War I

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Published November 1996
Forging the Collective Memory

Government and International Historians through Two World Wars

Wilson, K. (ed)

Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Memory Studies

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Published November 2000
France At War in the Twentieth Century

Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor

Holman, V. & Kelly, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II Media Studies

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Published April 1999
From World War to Waldheim

Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

Good, D. & Wodak, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War I Cultural Studies (General)

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Forthcoming April 2025
Germany’s Struggle for Modernity

Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1780-1918

Kocka, J.

In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society, economy, culture, and politics. Innovatively resituating these developments within a wider, European context, this book provides fresh insights into the emergence of classical modernity within the nineteenth century.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
eBook available Published October 2007
An Improbable War?

The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

Afflerbach, H., & Stevenson, D. (eds)

Subject: History: World War I

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eBook available Published January 2021
In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published July 2024
Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923

Ülker, E.

In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national movement in the middle of 1922.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

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eBook available Published August 2011
The Legacies of Two World Wars

European Societies in the Twentieth Century

Kettenacker, L. & Riotte, T. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

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eBook available Published December 2019
Men Under Fire

Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

Hutečka, J.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself.

Subjects: History: World War I Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Forthcoming December 2024
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

The Challenge of a New World Order

Badel, L., Conze, E., & Dröber, A. (eds)

An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopolitical landscape.

Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available Published April 2016
Rationed Life

Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918

Kučera, R.

Hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. This study reconstructs their collective experience through explorations of food, labor, gender, and protest to assemble a fascinating case study in twentieth century social history.

Subjects: History: World War I Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2015
The Spirit of the Laws

The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide

Akçam, T. & Kurt, U

Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

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Published June 2000
Under Siege

Portraits of Civilian Life in France During World War I

Young, R. (ed)

Subject: History: World War I

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Published September 2024
Vanquished and Victorious

World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938

Šmidrkal, V., Cole, L., Leidinger, H., Kučera, R., Walleczek-Fritz, J., & Šustrová, R.

Innovatively providing a comparative investigation of Austria and Czechoslovakia as key ‘successor states’ of the Habsburg Empire, Vanquished and Victorious reviews the considerable gaps in our understanding of the role veterans played.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published August 2017
World War I and the Jews

Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America

Rozenblit, M. L. and Karp, J. (eds)

World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world, allowing them to demonstrate patriotism, dispel antisemitic myths, and fight for their rights. This book provides a fascinating survey of the ways in which Jewish communities in Europe, North America, and the Middle East participated in and were changed by the Great War during and after the conflict.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I

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Published November 2020
Writing the Great War

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Cornelissen, C. & Weinrich, A. (eds)

The history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field.

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published July 2023
Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

The History of a National Idea

Jezernik, B.

Following the idea of Yugoslavism since its first public usage in 1849, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs explains why the concept of Yugoslavia competed with Slavic, Serbian, and Croatian nationalistic ideas and failed just five years after its first nation state was established

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I

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By Subject: History: World War I

View: By Date | Alphabetical | eBooks | Paperbacks

Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Coetzee, F. & M. (eds)

Subject: History: World War I

Between Empire and Continent

British Foreign Policy before the First World War

Rose, A.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe

Crouthamel, J., Geheran, M., Grady, T., & Köhne, J. B. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

Carnage and Care on the Eastern Front

The War Diaries of Bernhard Bardach, 1914-1918

Bardach, B.

Subjects: History: World War I Jewish Studies

Continental Transfers

Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945

Fuentes Codera, M. & Dogliani, P. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

Daily Life in the Abyss

Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

Tachjian, V.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940

Sturgess, C.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present

The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border

Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I

Grandits, H., Murber, I., & Tyran, K. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Evidence, History and the Great War

Historians and the Impact of 1914-18

Braybon, G. (ed)

Subject: History: World War I

Forging the Collective Memory

Government and International Historians through Two World Wars

Wilson, K. (ed)

Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Memory Studies

France At War in the Twentieth Century

Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor

Holman, V. & Kelly, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II Media Studies

From World War to Waldheim

Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

Good, D. & Wodak, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War I Cultural Studies (General)

Germany’s Struggle for Modernity

Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1780-1918

Kocka, J.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

An Improbable War?

The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

Afflerbach, H., & Stevenson, D. (eds)

Subject: History: World War I

In the Shadow of the Great War

Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923

Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies

Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923

Ülker, E.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

The Legacies of Two World Wars

European Societies in the Twentieth Century

Kettenacker, L. & Riotte, T. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II

Men Under Fire

Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918

Hutečka, J.

Subjects: History: World War I Gender Studies and Sexuality

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

The Challenge of a New World Order

Badel, L., Conze, E., & Dröber, A. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

Rationed Life

Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918