Brill’s Digital Library of World War I

Help us improve our service |
Brill’s Digital Library of World War I is an online resource that contains over 700 encyclopedia entries plus 250 peer-reviewed articles of transnational and global historical perspectives on significant topics of World War I. This collection includes Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War, an unrivalled reference work that showcases the knowledge of experts from 15 countries and offers 26 additional essays on the major belligerents, wartime society and culture, diplomatic and military events, and the historiography of the Great War.
The 250 articles address not only the key issues from political, historical and cultural perspectives, but also engages with aspects of the war which have remained underexplored such as the neutrals, the role of women before, during and after the war, and memory. The chapters have been drawn from a select number of Brill publications that have been published in the last 15 years. Brill’s Digital Library of World War I is a unique digital library that will allow researchers to discover new perspectives and connections with the enhanced navigational tools provided.
Subscriptions: see Brill.
- '1917: Beyond the Western Front', Ian F.W. Beckett, 2008, ISBN: 9789004171398
- Planning For The Endgame: The Central Powers, September 1916 – April 1917, pp. 1-24
- Generalship And Mass Surrender During The Italian Defeat At Caporetto, pp. 25-46
- ‘Weary Waiting Is Hard Indeed’: The Grand Fleet After Jutland, pp. 47-70
- Counting Unrest: Physical Manifestations Of Unrest And Their Relationship To Admiralty Perception, pp. 71-96
- Climax In The Baltic: The German Maritime Offensive In The Gulf Of Riga In October 1917, pp. 97-112
- Command, Strategy And The Battle For Palestine, 1917, pp. 113-130
- The Army In India In Mesopotamia From 1916 To 1918: Tactics, Technology And Logistics Reconsidered, pp. 131-158
- War Comes To The Fields: Sacrifice, Localism And Ploughing Up The English Countryside In 1917, pp. 159-176
- 'Aftermaths of War', Ingrid Sharp; Matthew Stibbe, 2011, ISBN: 9789004191723
- Introduction: Women’s Movements And Female Activists In The Aftermath Of War: International Perspectives 1918-1923, pp. 1-25
- The Aftermaths Of Defeat: The Fallen, The Catastrophe, And The Public Response Of Women To The End Of The First World War In Bulgaria, pp. 29-47
- The Women’s Suffrage Campaign In Italy In 1919 And Voce Nuova (“New Voice”): Corporatism, Nationalism And The Struggle For Political Rights, pp. 49-67
- Raps Across The Knuckles: The Extension Of War Culture By Radical Nationalist Women Journalists In Post-1918 Germany, pp. 69-88
- The Rhineland Horror Campaign And The Aftermath Of War, pp. 89-109
- From “Free Love” To Married Love : Gender Politics, Marie Stopes, And Middlebrow Fiction By Women In The Early Nineteen Twenties, pp. 113-133
- The Disappearing Surplus: The Spinster In The Post-War Debate In Weimar Germany, 1918-1920, pp. 135-157
- After The Vote Was Won. The Fate Of The Women’s Suffrage Movement In Russia After The October Revolution: Individuals, Ideas And Deeds, pp. 159-177
- Women Activists In Albania Following Independence And World War I, pp. 179-196
- A Bitter-Sweet Victory: Feminisms In France (1918-1923), pp. 199-219
- Sisters And Comrades. Women’s Movements And The “Austrian Revolution”: Gender In Insurrection, The Räte Movement, Parties And Parliament, pp. 221-243
- Who Represents Hungarian Women? The Demise Of The Liberal Bourgeois Women’s Rights Movement And The Rise Of The Right-Wing Women’s Movement In The Aftermath Of World War I, pp. 245-264
- Soldiers, members of parliament, social activists: the Polish women’s movement after World War I, pp. 265-285
- Political and public aspects of the activity of the Lithuanian women’s movement, 1918-1923, pp. 287-306
- Diverse Constructions: Feminist And Conservative Women’s Movements And Their Contribution To The (Re-)Construction Of Gender Relations In Hungary After The First World War, pp. 309-331
- Elsa Brändström And The Reintegration Of Returning Prisoners Of War And Their Families In Post-War Germany And Austria, pp. 333-353
- "We Stand On The Threshold Of A New Age”: Alice Masaryková , The Czechoslovak Red Cross, And The Building Of A New Europe, pp. 355-374
- “Having Seen Enough”: Eleanor Franklin Egan And The Journalism Of Great War Displacement, pp. 375-394
- Britain In The Balkans: The Response Of The Scottish Women’s Hospital Units, pp. 395-417
- 'Arms and the Man', Michael S. Neiberg, 2011, ISBN: 9789004206687
- Modern Soldier in a Busby: August von Mackensen, 1914–1916, DiNardo, pp. 131-168
- Winning and Losing: France on the Marne and on the Meuse, Doughty, pp. 169-192
- The Forgotten Campaign: Alsace-Lorraine August 1914, Herwig, pp. 193-214
- “Total War, Total Nonsense” or “The Military Historian’s Fetish”, Kiesling, pp. 215-242
- 'British Popular Culture and the First World War', Jessica Meyer, 2008, ISBN: 9789004166585
- Introduction: Popular Culture and the First World War, pp. 1-17
- The Propinquity of Place: Home, landscape and soldier poets of the First World War, pp. 21-46
- A War Unimagined: Food and the rank and file soldier of the First World War, pp. 47-70
- Tailoring in the Trenches: The making of First World War British Army Uniform, pp. 71-93
- All That Is Best of the Modern Woman? Representations of Female Military Auxiliaries in British Popular Culture 1914-1919, pp. 97-122
- Playing at Being Soldiers?' British Women and Military Uniform in the First World War, pp. 123-145
- Wartime Hysterics?' Alcohol, Women and the Politics of Wartime Social Purity in England, pp. 147-171
- Best Boys and Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric of Romance as Social Control in Wartime Magaznes for Young Women, pp. 173-193
- Practical Memory: Organized Veterans and the Politics of Commemoration, pp. 197-216
- The Old Front Line: Returning to the Battlefields In the Writings of Ex-Servicemen, pp. 217-236
- A Sting of Remembrance!': Collective Memory and Its Forgotten Armies, pp. 237-257
- The Last War: The Legacy of The First World War in 1940s British Fiction, pp. 259-281
- Reaching Out To the Past: Memory in Contemporary British First World War Narratives, pp. 285-304
- Framed (By) Memory: The Popular Mnemonics of the First World War in the Unknown Soldier and Distant Bridges, pp. 325-349
- How Much of an Experience Do We Want The Public to Receive?' Trench Reconstructions and Popular Images of the Great War, pp. 305-323
- If It Had Happened Otherwise' - First World War Exceptionalism in Counterfacctual History, pp. 351-368
- 'Companion to Women's Military History, A', Barton C. Hacker; Margaret Vining, 2012, ISBN: 9789004212176
- Volunteers, Auxiliaries, and Women’s Mobilization: The First World War and Beyond (1914–1939), Jensen, pp. 189-231
- U.S. Military Wives in the Philippines, from the Philippine War to World War II, Alvah, pp. 431-452
- “The Spirit of Woman-Power”: Representation of Women in World War I Posters, Prelinger & Hacker, pp. 453-484
- “German Women Help to Win!” Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars, Hagemann, pp. 485-511
- 'Decade of the Great War', Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s, Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon, Evan Dawley, 2014, ISBN: 9789004270015
- The Clash of Pride and Prejudice: The Immigration Issue and US-Japan Relations in 1910s, pp. 21-44
- From Alliance to Conference: The British Empire, Japan and Pacific Multilateralism, 1911-1921, pp. 45-63
- Out with the New and In With the Old: Uchida Yasuya and the Great War as a Turning Point in Japanese Foreign Affairs, pp. 64-82
- The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War: Unprecedented opportunities and Harsh Realities, pp. 83-106
- Securing the Maritime Trade, pp. 107-129
- From Cooperation to Conflict: Japanese Russian Relations from the Formation of the Russo-Japanese Entente to the Siberian Intervention, pp. 130-148
- The Wilson Administration and the Mandate Question in the Pacific, pp. 149-167
- What Peace Meant to Japan, pp. 168-188
- A New Look at Japan's Twenty-One Demands, pp. 189-210
- Japan as a Distant Friend, pp. 211-230
- The Making of a European Friend, pp. 231-256
- Friends in the Opposite Camps or Enemies from Afar, pp. 257-278
- Women on the Move, pp. 281-300
- The Great War and Urban Crisis, pp. 301-322
- Gender and the Great War, pp. 323-348
- The Science Room as an Archive: Taisho Japan and WW1, pp. 349-371
- Of World History and Great Men, pp. 372-393
- Buddhism and the Twenty-One Demands, pp. 394-414
- Railroad Workers and World War One, pp. 415-438
- Sovereignty and Imperial Hygene, pp. 439-460
- Fighting on Two Fronts: Japan's Involvement in te Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, pp. 461-480
- Changing Mutual Perceptions of China-Japan Relations in the 1910s in Chinese and Japanese Textbooks, pp. 481-503
- Global Competition for Power and Wealth, pp. 504-520
- 'Defending Neutrality', Wim Klinkert, 2013, ISBN: 9789004227477
- Introduction, pp. 1-12
- The Netherlands Army, 1900-1914, pp. 13-64
- "It's an engineer's war": Metal and Chemical Industry in the Service of the Military in the Netherlands, 1914-1925, pp. 65-129
- "A Vital Interest of the First Order": Military Aviation in the Netherlands, 1914-1920, pp. 131-163
- "GSIII, Guardian of the State": Spies and Informants in, for and against the Netherlands, 1914-1918, pp. 165-228
- “The Destructive Power of the Present-Day Weapons": The Lessons from World War I for the Military Debate in the Netherlands, 1918-1923, pp. 229-287
- Conclusion, pp. 289-297
- 'Endangered Cities', Marcus Funck; Roger Chickering, 2004, ISBN: 9780391041967
- Between Veiling and Unveiling: Modern Camouflage and the City as a Theater of War, Deriu, pp. 15-34
- Controlling Urban Society during World War I: Cooperation between Belgian Authorities and the Forces of Military Occupation, Magerus, pp. 65-79
- Reweaving the Urban Fabric: Multiethnicity and Occupation in Lodz, 1914–1918, Hofman, pp. 81-94
- War Enacted: Popular Theater and Collective Identities in Berlin, 1914–1918, Baumeister, pp. 111-126
- Death in Freiburg, 1914–1918, Chickering, pp. 127-143
- 'Finding Common Ground', Jennifer D. Keene; Michael S. Neiberg, 2010, ISBN: 9789004191822
- Why Are We Still Interested in This Old War?, pp. 3-18
- Black-hearted Traitors, Crucified Martyrs, and the Leaning Virgin: The Role of Rumor and the Great War Canadian Soldier, pp. 21-42
- “Their Lordships Regret That…”: Admiralty Perceptions of and Responses to Allegations of Lower Deck Disquiet, pp. 43-65
- Imperialism, Nationalism and the First World War in India, pp. 67-85
- Letters from Captivity: The First World War Correspondence of the German Prisoners of War in the United Kingdom, pp. 87-110
- Schools, State-Building, and National Conflict in German-Occupied Poland, 1915-1918, pp. 113-137
- Humanitarian Relief in Europe and the Analogue of War, 1914-1918, pp. 139-158
- Railroads and the Operational Level of War in the German 1918 Offensives, pp. 161-186
- Liaisons not so Dangerous: First World War Liaison Officers and Marshal Ferdinand Foch, pp. 187-207
- The Junior Partner: Anglo-American Military Cooperation in World War I, pp. 209-235
- “The Crusade of Youth.”: Pacifism and the Militarization of Youth Culture in Marc Sangnier’s Peace Congresses, 1923-32, pp. 239-266
- Militarizing the Disabled: Medicine, Industry, and “Total Mobilization” in World War I Germany, pp. 267-292
- “Suspicious Pacifists”: The Dilemma of Polish Veterans Fighting War during the 1920s and 1930s, pp. 293-312
- 'Guarded Neutrality', Susanne Wolf, 2013, ISBN: 9789004209916
- Guarded Neutrality: Introduction , pp. 1-11
- A Neutral Country, pp. 13-20
- The Netherlands in World War One, pp. 21-34
- The First Few Weeks: Applying the Rules in Practice, pp. 35-66
- Administering Military Internment: The Camps, pp. 67-91
- The Middle Years of the War; Consolidation, pp. 93-124
- 1917: Deserters, Politics and Religion, pp. 125-141
- Internment in a Neutral Country: The Arrival of the Prisoners of War, pp. 143-163
- Going Home, pp. 165-178
- Dutch Cabinet 1913-1919, pp. 179
- Foreign Representatives in the Netherlands 1914–1918, pp. 181
- List of Internment Camps, pp. 183
- 'Indian Army in the Two World Wars, The', Kaushik Roy, 2011, ISBN: 9789004185500
- Introduction: Warfare Society and the Indian Army during Two World Wars, pp. 1-30
- The Indian Cavalry Divisions in Somme: 1916, pp. 33-62
- Command in the Indian Expeditionary Force D: Mesopotamia, 1915-16, pp. 63-103
- Logistics of the Indian Expeditionary Force D in Mesopotamia: 1914-1918, pp. 105-143
- The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917-18: An Imperial Turning Point, pp. 145-163
- The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force: Palestine 1918, pp. 165-190
- Indian Cavalry from the First World War till the Third AfghanWar, pp. 191-222
- Morale of the Indian Army in the Mesopotamia Campaign: 1914-17, pp. 393-417
- From Loyalty to Dissent: Punjabis from the Great War to World War II, pp. 461-491
- 'Netherlands and World War One, The', Hubert P. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, 2001, ISBN: 9789004122437
- The Netherlands and World War One: Introduction, pp. 1-14
- The Threat, pp. 15-16
- API API, pp. 40-82
- The Mouse that Roared, pp. 83-127
- Strict Neutrality, 1914-1916, pp. 128-177
- Narrow Escapes, 1917-1918, pp. 178-265
- The Spectre of Belgian Imperialism, pp. 266-330
- The Netherlands and World War One: Conclusion, pp. 331-358
- 'Other Fronts, Other Wars?', Joachim Bürgschwentner; Matthias Egger; Gunda Barth-Scalmani, 2014, ISBN: 9789004243651
- Introduction: Approaching the Centenary 1914-2014, pp. 1-15
- Lethal Journey Between Four Fronts: First World War Experiences of the Reichstag’s Deputies, pp. 19-40
- Combating Desertion and Voluntary Surrender in the Russian Army During the First World War, pp. 41-61
- Baptism by Snow: The Ottoman Experience of Winter Warfare During the First World War, pp. 62-91
- “Our common colonial voices”: Canadian Nurses, Patient Relations, and Nation on Lemnos, pp. 92-122
- Brücken, Beethoven und Baumkuchen: German and Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War and the Japanese Home Front., pp. 125-145
- Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity, pp. 146-166
- The Camp Newspaper Nedelja as a Reflection of the Experience of Russian Prisoners of War in Austria-Hungary, pp. 167-194
- Two Kinds of Occupation? German and Austro-Hungarian Economic Policy in Congress Poland, 1915–1918, pp. 197-217
- A School of Violence and Spatial Desires? Austro-Hungarian Experiences of War in Eastern Europe, 1914-18, pp. 218-236
- We and Homeland: German Occupation, Lithuanian Discourse, and War Experience in Ober Ost, pp. 237-255
- Serbia as a Health Threat to Europe: The War Epidemic of Typhus 1914/1915, pp. 259-279
- Other fronts, other diseases? Comparisons of Front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment, pp. 280-302
- Who Provided Care for Wounded and Disabled Soldiers? Conceptualizing State-Civil Society Relationship in First World War Austria, pp. 303-328
- Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front, pp. 331-348
- The Transformation of the Local Public Spheres: German, Belgian and Dutch Border Towns during the First World War Compared., pp. 349-369
- War on Stage. Home Front Entertainment in European Metropolises 1914-1918, pp. 370-385
- Strange Fronts, Strange Wars: Germany’s Battle for “Islam” in the Middle East during the First World War, and British Reactions, pp. 389-414
- War between Allies: Polish and Ukrainian Intellectuals 1914–1923, pp. 415-134
- In the Name of Father and Son: Remembering the First World War in Serbia, pp. 437-462
- Memory Landscape of the South-Western Front: Cultural Legacy, Promotion of Tourism or European Heritage?, pp. 463-500
- 'Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War, The', Mehmet Besikçi, 2012, ISBN: 9789004225206
- The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War: Introduction, pp. 1-31
- Organized Spontaneity: The Call to Arms in the Ottoman Public Sphere on the Eve of the War, pp. 33-92
- Conscription under Total War Conditions, pp. 93-156
- Volunteerism as a Relationship of Power: Volunteers in the Ottoman Army, pp. 157-202
- Young Boys into Soldiers, the Home Front into Barracks: Attempts at Permanent Mobilization through Paramilitary Youth Organizations, pp. 203-245
- The Limits of Ottoman Manpower Mobilization: The Problem of Desertion and Attempts to Remobilize, pp. 247-309
- The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War: Conclusion, pp. 311-315
- 'Small Powers in the Age of Total War', Herman Klinkert, 1900-1940, 2011, ISBN: 9789004203211
- Introduction. Small States in a Big World, pp. 1-25
- Too Good to Be True?' European Hopes for Neutrality before 1914, pp. 27-55
- Neutral Tones. The Netherlands and Switzerland and Their Interpretations of Neutrality 1914-1918, pp. 57-84
- Fall K. German Offensive Plans Against the Netherlands 1916-1918, pp. 85-117
- German War Plans Against Denmark 1916-1918, pp. 119-134
- The Development of The Air Defence of Copenhagen, pp. 135-152
- The Debate on Denmark's Defence 1900-1940, pp. 153-181
- Small Nations under the Gun. Europe 1914-1940, pp. 183-200
- Dutch Army Leadership and the Operational Planning During the Interwar Years, pp. 201-219
- 'Uncovered Fields', 2003, Jenny Macleod; Pierre Purseigle, ISBN: 9789004132641
- Introduction: Perspectives in First World War Studies, pp. 1-23
- A Uniform of Whiteness:Racisms in the German Officer Corps 1900-1918
- Soldiers, Suffering and Military Justice in the German Army of the Great War, pp. 43-60
- Cromwell on the Bed Stand: Allied Civil-Military Relations in World War 1, pp. 61-77
- A Community At War: British Civilian Internees at the Ruhleben Camp in Germany, 1914-1918, pp. 79-94
- Beyond and Below the Nations: Towards a Comparative History of Local Communities at War, pp. 95-123
- Stereotypical Bedfellows: The Combination of Anti-Semitism with Germanophobia in Great Britain, 1914-1918, pp. 125-141
- Leave and Schizophrenia: Permissionaires in Paris During the First World War, pp. 143-158
- Forging the Industrial Home Front: Iron-Nail Memorials in the Ruhr, pp. 159-180
- The Great War Between Degeneration and Regeneration, pp. 179-193
- Gladder to be Going Out than Afraid': Shellshock and Heroic Nationality in Britain, 1914-1918, pp. 195-210
- Tears in the Trenches: A History of Emotions and the Experience of War, pp. 211-226
- La Dame Blanche: Gender and Espionage in Occupied Europe, pp. 227-242
- War Neurosis and Viennese Psychiatry in World War One, pp. 243-260
- How a Pro-German Minority Influenced Dutch Intellectual Debate During the Great War, pp. 261-277
- The Death Throes of Civilization. The Elites of Latin-America Face the Great War, pp. 279-295
- 'Untold War', Heather Jones; Jennifer O’Brien; Christoph Schmidt-Supprian, 2008, ISBN: 9789004166592
- Introduction: Untold War, pp. 1-20
- German And French Regiments On The Western Front, 1914–1918, pp. 23-61
- Hidden Courage: Postwar Literature And Anglican Army Chaplains On The Western Front, 1914–1918, pp. 63-94
- ‘The Germans Have Landed!’: Invasion Fears In The South-East Of England, August To December 1914, pp. 95-116
- Making Friends And Foes: Occupiers And Occupied In First World War Romania, 1916–1918, pp. 119-149
- From Street Walking To The Convent: Child Prostitution Cases Judged By The Juvenile Court Of Brussels During World War One, pp. 151-177
- Defending The Heimat: The Germans In South-West Africa And East Africa During The First World War, pp. 179-208
- The ‘Rebirth Of Greater Germany’: The Austro-German Alliance And The Outbreak Of War, pp. 209-230
- Toys, Games And Juvenile Literature In Germany And Britain During The First World War. A Comparison, pp. 233-257
- The Mater Dolorosa On The Battlefield—Mourning Mothers In German Women’s Art Of The First World War, pp. 259-291
- Information, Censorship Or Propaganda? The Illustrated French Press In The First World War, pp. 293-324
- ‘War Profiteers’ And ‘War Profiters’: Representing Economic Gain In France During The First World War, pp. 325-353
- ‘Humans Are Cheap And The Bread Is Dear.’ Republican Portrayals Of The War Experience In Weimar Germany, pp. 357-384
- The First World War And German Memory, pp. 385-415
- The First World War In Contemporary British Popular Culture, pp. 417-441
- 'War and Faith. The Catholic Church in Slovenia', Pavlina Bobic, 2012, ISBN: 9789004202191
- War and Faith: Introduction, pp. 1-6
- The Catholic Church between the Nation and State in July and August 1914, pp. 7-44
- Italy "Ante Portas", pp. 45-86
- From Holy to Bloody War, pp. 87-118
- Guardians of the True Faith, pp. 119-160
- "Austria Nova" or "The Compass of Austria is Pointed Southwards", pp. 161-200
- "Lift Up Your Heads, for Your Redemption is Near!": The Dawn of Yugoslavia, pp. 201-239
- War and Faith: Conclusion, pp. 241-244
- 'Warfare and Belligerence', Pierre Purseigle, 2005, ISBN: 9789004143524
- Warfare and Belligerence - Approaches to the First World War, pp. 1-37
- It all goes wrong!' : German, French, and British approaches to mastering the western front, pp. 39-72
- Discipline in the Italian Army 1915-1918, pp. 73-100
- New Jeruslaems: Sacrifice and Reemption in the War Experiences of English and German Military Chaplains, pp. 101-132
- Encountering the "Enemy": Prisoner of War Transport and the Development of War Cultures in 1914, pp. 133-162
- Marc Sangnier's War, 1914-1919: Portrait of a Soldier, Catholic and Social Activist, pp. 163-188
- From Liberalism to Labour: Josiah C. Wedgewood and English Liberalism during the First World War, pp. 189-214
- Protest and Disability: A New Look at the African American Soldiers During the First World War, pp. 215-241
- Huts, Demobilisation and the Quest for an Associational Life in Rural Communities in England After the Great War, pp. 243-264
- An American Geographer Between Science and Diplomacy: The Mission of Douglas W. Johnson in Europe, May-Novermber 1918, pp. 265-294
- The Great War and Modern Scholarship: Academic Responses to War in Paris and London, pp. 295-322
- New Writers, New Literary Genres (1914-1918): The Contribution of Historical Comparatism (France, Germany), pp. 323-345
- Women Readers of Henri Barbusse: The Evidence of Letters to the Author, pp. 347-358
- Cinematic Representations of the Enemy in Belgian Silent Films, pp. 359-377
- Paris, Berlin: War Memory in Two Capital Cities (1914-1933), pp. 379-411
- 'World in World Wars, The', Heike Liebau , 2010, ISBN: 9789004185456
- Introduction, The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, pp. 1-26
- Indian Soldiers’ Experiences in France during World War I: Seeing Europe from the Rear of the Front, Markovits, pp. 27-54
- Front Lines and Status Lines: Sepoy and ‘Menial’ in the Great War 1916-1920, Singha, pp. 55-106
- The Corrosiveness of Comparison: Reverberations of Indian Wartime Experiences in German Prison Camps (1915-1919), Ahuja, pp. 131-166
- Kaiser ki jay (Long Live the Kaiser): Perceptions of World War I and the Socio-Religious Movement among the Oraons in Chota Nagpur 1914-1916, Liebau, pp. 249-276
- The First World War According to the Memories of ‘Commoners’ in the Bilad al-Sham, Hanna, pp. 299-312
- Ambiguities of the Modern: The Great War in the Memoirs and Poetry of the Iraqis, Khoury, pp. 313-340
- Ardour and Anxiety: Politics and Literature in the Indian Homefront, Das, pp. 341-368
- Military collaboration, Conscription and Citizenship Rights in the Four Communes of Senegal and in French West Africa (1912 - 1946), Bruschi, pp. 429-456
- The Impact of the East Africa Campaign, 1914-1918 on South Africa and beyond, Samson, pp. 483-498
- From the Great War to the Syrian Armed Resistance Movement (1919-1921): The Military and the mujahidin in Action, Meouchy, pp. 499-518
- Still Behind Enemy Lines? Algerian and Tunisian Veterans after the World Wars, DeGeorges, pp. 519-546
- 'World War I and Propaganda and Public Opinion', Troy R.E. Paddock, 2014, ISBN: 9789004264564
- Introduction, pp. 1-17
- Transcending the Nation, pp. 21-41
- Presenting the War in Ireland, 1914–1918, pp. 42-64
- “Fight the Huns with Food”, pp. 65-88
- Propaganda, Imperial Subjecthood and National Identity in Jamaica during the First World War, pp. 89-112
- South Africa and the First World War, pp. 113-133
- The Hun and the Home, pp. 137-154
- German Propaganda and Prisoners-of-War during World War I, pp. 155-180
- Indian and African Soldiers in British, French and German Propaganda during the First World War, pp. 181-195
- Of Occupied Territories and Lost Provinces, pp. 199-221
- The Cultivation of Deutschtum in Occupied Lithuania during the First World War, pp. 222-246
- A Different Kind of Home Front, pp. 247-270
- Propaganda and Mobilizations in Greece during the First World War, pp. 273-291
- Propaganda and Politics, pp. 273-291
- Luring Neutrals, pp. 322-344
The subject list presented below was adopted from the International Society for First World War Studies (ISFWWS).
01 Reference and Bibliography02 General
03 Origins & Pre-war
04 International Relations during the War
05 The Military and Naval War
06 Soldiers & Combat
07 Gender
08 Society
09 Economy
10 Culture
11 Science, Technology, and Medicine
12 Politics
13 Africa
14 Asia
15 Australia
16 Austria-Hungary
17 The Balkans and Eastern Europe
18 Belgium
19 Britain
20 The French and British Empires
21 Canada
22 France
23 Germany
24 India
25 Ireland
26 Italy
27 Neutral States
28 New Zealand
29 The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East
30 Portugal
31 Russia
32 The United States of America
33 Peacemaking and Continued Conflict
34 Legacy
35 Fictional
Brill’s Digital Library of World War I allows users to browse articles alphabetically and thematically, as well as to undertake traditional word searches.
The ‘Table of Contents’ tab displays the 26 themed essays of Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War in alphabetical order. The 650-plus shorter entries from the encyclopedia can be found via alphabetical browsing. The ‘Table of Contents’ tab also displays an expandable list of 24 book titles from which 250 individual chapters have been drawn. The selected chapters can be downloaded in PDF format.
The ‘Keywords’ tab allows users to browse the database using the subject terms adopted from the International Society for First World War Studies (ISFWWS). These subject term search results include all relevant encyclopedia entries and book chapters.
FORTHCOMING: links to prelims articles