Evidence, history, and the Great War : historians and the impact of 1914-18 /

Evidence, history, and the Great War : historians and the impact of 1914-18 / edited by Gail Braybon.

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"While Britain may have suffered a surfeit of war books, many telling much the same story, there is far less written about the impact of the Great War in other combatant nations. Its history was long suppressed in both fascist Italy and the communist Soviet Union: only recently have historians...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Braybon, Gail (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2003.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Historiography.
War and society.
World War, 1914-1918 > Women.
World War, 1914-1918 > Medical care.
World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects.
Historiography.
Medical care.
Social aspects.
Women.
Table of Contents:
  • 'Though in a picture only' : portrait photography and the commemoration of the First World War / Catherine Moriarty
  • Making spectaculars : museums and how we remember gender in wartime / Deborah Thom
  • British 'war enthusiasm' in 1914 : a reassessment / Adrian Gregory
  • Winners or losers : women's symbolic role in the war story / Gail Braybon
  • Liberating women? : examining gender, morality and sexuality in First World War Britain and France / Susan Grayzel
  • The Great War and gender relations : the case of French women and the First World War revisited / James McMillan
  • Mental cases : British shellshock and the politics of interpretation / Laurinda Stryker
  • Food and the German home front : evidence from Berlin / Keith Allen
  • The epic and the domestic : women and war in Russia, 1914-1917 / Peter Gatrell
  • Italian women during the Great War / Simonetta Ortaggi.

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