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Between Veiling and Unveiling: Modern Camouflage and the City as a Theater of War
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Deriu, Davide - Between Veiling and Unveiling: Modern Camouflage and the City as a Theater of War
Keywords: Aviation | Science, Technology, and Medicine | Intellectuals and the War | Home fronts | Visual Arts | Violence against civilians | General ‛Endangered Cities’ Marcus Funck and Roger Chickering,
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2004
e-ISBN: 9789047409812
DOI: 10.1163/9789047409812.002 © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Deriu, Davide
A Different Kind of Home Front: War, Gender and Propaganda in Warsaw, 1914–1918
(10,415 words)
Blobaum, Robert; Blobaum, Donata - A Different Kind of Home Front: War, Gender and Propaganda in Warsaw, 1914–1918
ISFWWS-Keywords: Poland | Women and War | Economy | Society | Germany | Russia | Politics | Home fronts
World War I and Propaganda Troy R.E. Paddock , (2014)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2014
e-ISBN: 9789004264571
DOI: 10.1163/9789004264571_013 © 2014 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Blobaum, Robert and Blobaum, Donata
War Enacted: Popular Theater and Collective Identities in Berlin, 1914–1918
(92 words)
Baumeister, Martin - War Enacted: Popular Theater and Collective Identities in Berlin, 1914–1918
Keywords: Germany | Home fronts | Culture | Society | Visual Arts | Politics ‛Endangered Cities’ Marcus Funck and Roger Chickering,
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2004
e-ISBN: 9789047409812
DOI: 10.1163/9789047409812.008 © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Baumeister, Martin
‘Playing at being Soldiers’?: British Women and Military Uniform in the First World War
(10,127 words)
Noakes, Lucy - ‘Playing at being Soldiers’?: British Women and Military Uniform in the First World War
Keywords: British women | femininity | First World War | Marjorie Garber | military uniform | soldiering | Susan Grayzel
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Women and War | Home fronts | Politics | Masculinity | Gender | Society
Abstract: The woman in military uniform threatens to destabilise both the femininity of the women who wear it and the naturalised linkage between soldiering and masculinity. As Marjorie Garber has argued, the “sight …
“Wartime Hysterics”?: Alcohol, Women and the Politics of Wartime Social Purity in England
(10,502 words)
Moss, Stella - “Wartime Hysterics”?: Alcohol, Women and the Politics of Wartime Social Purity in England
Keywords: British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA) | Central Control Board (CCB) | female inebriation | female liquor consumption | wartime social purity | women's social positions | women's wartime drinking
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Women and War | Home fronts | Society | Politics
Abstract: In exploring the manifold constructions of female liquor consumption, this chapter contributes to the historiographical debates over the impact o…
New Jerusalems: Sacrifice and Redemption in the War Experiences of English and German Military Chaplains
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Porter, Patrick - New Jerusalems: Sacrifice and Redemption in the War Experiences of English and German Military Chaplains
Keywords: Religion | Culture | Legacy | Politics | Germany | Britain | Society | Home fronts ‛Warfare and Belligerence’ Pierre Purseigle,
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2005
e-ISBN: 9789047407362
DOI: 10.1163/9789047407362.005 © 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Porter, Patrick
Ardour and Anxiety: Politics and Literature in the Indian Homefront
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Das, Santanu - Ardour and Anxiety: Politics and Literature in the Indian Homefront
Keywords: India | Home fronts | Literature | Society | Religion | Women and War | The French and British Empires | Visual Arts | Masculinity
The World in World Wars Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber , Katharina Lange , Dyala Hamzah and Ravi Ahuja , (2010)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2010
e-ISBN: 9789004188471
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004185456.i-618.82 © 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Das, Santanu
Information, Censorship or Propaganda? The Illustrated French Press in the First World War
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Beurier, Joëlle - Information, Censorship or Propaganda? The Illustrated French Press in the First World War
Keywords: censorship | French soldier | Great War | photographic propaganda
ISFWWS-Keywords: French society during the war | Western Front | Home fronts | Visual Arts | Literature | Culture | Experience of combat
Abstract: This chapter examines different photograph collections in order to enhance understanding of photographic propaganda during the Great War. The photograph of a dead French soldier showed the silhouetted body of a
zouave, a soldier from the French colo…
A Uniform of Whiteness: Racisms in the German Officer Corps, 1900–1918
(104 words)
Moyd, Michelle - A Uniform of Whiteness: Racisms in the German Officer Corps, 1900–1918
Keywords: Germany | Military organisation of combat | East Africa | Politics | Home fronts | Society | Legacy | Published memoirs and biographies ‛Uncovered Fields’ Jenny Macleod and Pierre Purseigle,
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2004
e-ISBN: 9789047402596
DOI: 10.1163/9789047402596.003 © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Moyd, Michelle
The Great War between Degeneration and Regeneration
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Le Naour, Jean-Yves - The Great War between Degeneration and Regeneration
Keywords: French society during the war | Home fronts | Culture | Pre-war period | Society | Home fronts | Legacy ‛Uncovered Fields’ Jenny Macleod and Pierre Purseigle,
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2004
e-ISBN: 9789047402596
DOI: 10.1163/9789047402596.011 © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Le Naour, Jean-Yves
‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism in Counterfactual History
(10,478 words)
Badsey, Stephen - ‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism in Counterfactual History
Keywords: battlefield | Great War | London's Imperial War Museum | Trench Experience | Western Front
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Legacy | Western Front | Home fronts | Soldiers and Combat | Culture | Society
Abstract: Perhaps the most ubiquitous and evocative image of the Great War in popular culture is the trench on the Western Front. In novels and film, and in both the classroom and the museum, the trench is called upon to…
Militarizing the Disabled: Medicine, Industry, and “Total Mobilization” in World War I Germany
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Perry, Heather R. - Militarizing the Disabled: Medicine, Industry, and “Total Mobilization” in World War I Germany
Keywords: Germany's factories | industrial inspection | military processes | total mobilization | World War I
ISFWWS-Keywords: Germany | Home fronts | Science | Technology | Medicine | Economy | Masculinity
Abstract: In 1916, Friedrich Syrup, an engineer working in the Prussian industrial inspection office, published a pamphlet outlining the optimal use of labor in Germany's factories. The German experience of 'total …
Volunteers, Auxiliaries, and Women’s Mobilization: The FirstWorld War and Beyond (1914–1939)
(18,792 words)
Jensen, Kimberly - Volunteers, Auxiliaries, and Women’s Mobilization: The FirstWorld War and Beyond (1914–1939)
Keywords: Women and War | Masculinity | Society | Medicine | Home fronts | Gender | Experience of combat | Prisoners of War | Military organisation of combat | Legacy
A Companion to Women’s Military History Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining , (2012)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2012
e-ISBN: 9789004206823
DOI: 10.1163/9789004206823_007 © 2012 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Jensen, Kimberly
Forging The Industrial Home Front: Iron-Nail Memorials in the Ruhr
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Goebel, Stefan - Forging The Industrial Home Front: Iron-Nail Memorials in the Ruhr
Keywords: Home fronts | Germany | Visual Arts | Economy | Society | Culture ‛Uncovered Fields’ Jenny Macleod and Pierre Purseigle,
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2004
e-ISBN: 9789047402596
DOI: 10.1163/9789047402596.010 © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Goebel, Stefan
Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front
(8,269 words)
Kučera, Rudolf - Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front
ISFWWS-Keywords: Austria-Hungary | Masculinity | Home fronts | Society | Economy | Politics | Women and War
Other Fronts, Other Wars? Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger and Gunda Barth-Scalmani , (2014)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2014
e-ISBN: 9789004279513
DOI: 10.1163/9789004279513_016 © 2014 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Kučera, Rudolf
Defending the Heimat: The Germans in South-West Africa and East Africa During the First World War
(12,890 words)
Rouven Steinbach, Daniel - Defending the
Heimat: The Germans in South-West Africa and East Africa During the First World War
Keywords: First World War | German East Africa | German Schutzgebiete | Heimat | South-West Africa
ISFWWS-Keywords: Africa | East Africa | Germany | Society | Pre-war period | Culture | Home fronts
Abstract: This chapter examines wartime mobilization of German settlers in Africa with particular reference to the German concept of
Heimat. It focuses on the two German
Schutzgebiete which had the largest white populations and that experienced the mo…
‘The Germans Have Landed!’: Invasion Fears in the South-East of England, August to December 1914
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Pennell, Catriona - ‘The Germans Have Landed!’: Invasion Fears in the South-East of England, August to December 1914
Keywords: Essex population | First World War | German army | invasion | Southend-on-Sea
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Society | Pre-war period | Germany | Home fronts | Violence against civilians | Literature | Belgium | Politics
Abstract: The British coastal town of Southend-on-Sea, Essex is situated less than one hundred miles away from Ostend. The primary reaction of the Essex population between August and December 1914 was…
“Fight the Huns with Food”: Mobilizing Canadian Civilians for the Food War Effort during the Great War, 1914–1918
(9,738 words)
Djebabla, Mourad - “Fight the Huns with Food”: Mobilizing Canadian Civilians for the Food War Effort during the Great War, 1914–1918
ISFWWS-Keywords: Canada | Naval Warfare | Economy | Home fronts | Society | The United States of America | Visual Arts | Children and War | Women and War
World War I and Propaganda Troy R.E. Paddock , (2014)
Publication Editor: Brill, The Netherlands, 2014
e-ISBN: 9789004264571
DOI: 10.1163/9789004264571_005 © 2014 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Djebabla, Mourad
Letters From Captivity: The First World War Correspondence of the German Prisoners of War in the United Kingdom
(10,203 words)
Feltman, Brian K. - Letters From Captivity: The First World War Correspondence of the German Prisoners of War in the United Kingdom
Keywords: correspondence | First World War | German prisoners | letters from captivity | Mecklenburgischer Hilfsverein | surrender | UK
ISFWWS-Keywords: Prisoners of War | Germany | Literature | Masculinity | Home fronts | Published memoirs and biographies
Abstract: This study aims to contribute to the growing field of scholarship concerned with the cultural implications of surrender and wartime captivity by sheddi…
The Propinquity of Place: Home, Landscape and Soldier Poets of the First World War
(10,639 words)
Grieves, Keith - The Propinquity of Place: Home, Landscape and Soldier Poets of the First World War
Keywords: First World War | landscape | pastoral home | patriotism | premodern cultural formation | soldier poets
ISFWWS-Keywords: Literature | Western Front | Home fronts | Britain | Published memoirs and biographies
Abstract: Throughout the Great War and after, the notion of comforting sensuous antidotes, usually recollections of a pastoral home, was assumed to have a rightful place alongside depictions of the “bloody drama”. The…