Other Fronts, Other Wars?: First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial

Купить бумажную книгу и читать

Автор: Joachim Bürgschwentner; Matthias Egger; Gunda Barth-Scalmani

Название: Other Fronts, Other Wars?: First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial

Язык: английский

Серия: History of warfare, Vol.100

Издательство: Leiden; Boston: Brill

Год: 2014

Формат: pdf

Размер: 18,1 mb

Страниц: xvi, 521

This book is the sixth publication arising from the work of the International Society for First World War Studies. It is a selection of papers from a conference held in Innsbruck in late September 2011.

The chosen theme of the conference, ‘Other fronts, other wars?’, in combination with the decision to hold a society conference in one of the succeeding countries of the Habsburg Empire for the first time, brought a radically different perspective to the society’s proceedings. Reminding those of us more familiar with the Western Front or Gallipoli, that there was more than one Eastern Front, and ultimately – through a remarkable field trip at the close of the conference – physically taking many delegates to one of the more extraordinary parts of one of the (South-) Eastern Fronts in the Dolomite mountains.

Through its conferences, its journal and its various other activities, the International Society for First World War Studies, has aimed to foster innovative research produced by a global community of scholars. This book continues that tradition in fine style.

Preface ix

List of Figures xi

Notes on Contributors xi

Introduction: Approaching the Centenary, 1914-2014 1

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 19

Nicolas Patin

2 Combating Desertion and Voluntary Surrender in the Russian Army During the First World War 41

Paul Simmons

3 Baptism by Snow: The Ottoman Experience of Winter Warfare During the First World War 62

Altay Atli

4 “Our common colonial voices”: Canadian Nurses, Patient Relations, and Nation on Lemnos 92

Andrea McKenzie

PART 2

Towards a Cultural History of Captivity

5 Brücken, Beethoven und Baumkuchcn: German and Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War and the Japanese Home Front 125

Mahon Murphy

6 Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity 146

Kate Ariotti

7 The Camp Newspaper Nedelja as a Reflection of the Experience of Russian Prisoners of War in Austria-Hungary 167

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 197

Stephan Lehnstaedt

9 A School of Violence and Spatial Desires? Austro-Hungarian Experiences of War in Eastern Europe, 1914-1918 218

Wolfram Domlk

10 We and Homeland: German Occupation, Lithuanian Discourse, and War Experience in Ober Ost 237

Andrea Griffante

PART 4

Medical History and War Relief

11 Serbia as a Health Threat to Europe: The Wartime Typhus Epidemic, 1914-1915 259

Indira Durakovic

12 Other Fronts, Other Diseases? Comparisons of Front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment 280

Philipp Rauh and Livla Priill

13 Who Provided Care for Wounded and Disabled Soldiers? Conceptualizing State-Civil Society Relationship in First World War Austria 303

Ke-chin Hsia

PART 5

War at Home: Gender, Space and Entertainment

14 Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front 331

RudolfKudera

15 The Transformation of Local Public Spheres: German, Belgian and Dutch Border Towns during the First World War Compared 349

Bernhard Liemann

16 War on Stage. Home Front Entertainment in European Metropolises 1914-1918 370

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 389

Tilman Lüdke

18 War between Allies: Polish and Ukrainian Intellectuals 1914-1923 415

Maciej Górny

PART 7

Remembering the First World War

19 In the Name of Father and Son: Remembering the First World War in Serbia 437

Katarina Todić

20 The Memory Landscape of the South-Western Front: Cultural Legacy, Promotion of Tourism, or European Heritage? 463

Gunda Barth-Scalmani

Bibliography 501

Index of Places 505

Index of Names 514