Journal•ISSN: 1947-5020
First World War Studies
Taylor & Francis
About: First World War Studies is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): German & Front (military). It has an ISSN identifier of 1947-5020. Over the lifetime, 320 publications have been published receiving 1855 citations. The journal is also known as: Journal of the International Society for First World War studies. & Journal of the International Society for First World War studies.
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TL;DR: The fact that the First World War was a global war was itself the product of a global order, shaped by the European great powers and held together by an embryonic economic system as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This article discusses the widening of the First World War from a European war to a global war and what that meant for the participants. Today's politicians, who talk (albeit tautologically) of an ‘increasingly globalized world’, forget how already ‘globalized’ the world seemed in 1914, especially if you happened to live in London. The fact that the First World War was a global war was itself the product of a global order, shaped by the European great powers and held together by an embryonic economic system. The title ‘the world war’ was a statement about its importance, not a statement about its geographical scale. And yet the French and British official histories, unlike the German, did not use ‘world war’ in their titles, any more than they had used the phrase during the war itself. They preferred the title ‘the Great War’, and in English the war only became widely known as the First World War after 1945, in other words after there had been a Second World War. The article explores the implications of t...
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TL;DR: Race and war in France: colonial subjects in the French army, by Richard S. Fogarty, Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 2008, ix + 374 pp., ISBN 978-0-8018-8824-3 (hardback) as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Race and war in France: colonial subjects in the French army, by Richard S. Fogarty, Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 2008, ix + 374 pp., ISBN 978-0-8018-8824-3 (hardback) The complex and ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the newly emerging history of humanitarianism and humanitarian aid during the First World War era is explored, which offers novel ways for thinking about such topics as the experience of civilians, the role of nonstate organizations and individual actors in the war effort, and the nature of relations between neutrals, allies and warring nations.
Abstract: This special issue explores the newly emerging history of humanitarianism and humanitarian aid during the First World War era. Broadly defined, humanitarianism invokes helping others, promoting the general welfare of mankind, and rescuing endangered people. Incorporating humanitarianism into the history of the war deepens our understanding of the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural contours of the conflict. It offers novel ways for thinking about such topics as the experience of civilians, the role of non-state organizations and individual actors in the war effort, and the nature of relations between neutrals, allies, and warring nations. It illuminates, moreover, the formation of ideas, structures, and practices of interventionism, and the ways in which humanitarian responses to war catalysed the formation of new forms of international interaction and awakened the world to the possibilities of aid amid disaster and in its wake. The dynamism of this new front of First World War history is revealed...
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TL;DR: In this article, Jones's book "Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War, by Heather Jones, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, xv+451 pp.
Abstract: Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War, by Heather Jones, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, xv + 451 pp. + illustrations, £65 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-521-11758-6 Jones's...
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TL;DR: The authors investigated how common it really was and tried to place it in the wide context of public reactions to the war, using newspapers, letters and diaries to uncover the feelings of the time rather than post-hoc reflections.
Abstract: That the British public thought that the First World War would be ‘over by Christmas’ in 1914 is such a common feature of war fiction, memoirs and histories that it has scarcely been questioned, let alone seriously examined. The phrase has become shorthand for naivety among a generation of young men who are supposed to have rushed to join the army rather than missing all the ‘fun’, the politicians and generals who sent them to the front and the journalists who cheered them on. This article investigates how common it really was and attempts to place it in the wide context of public reactions to the war, using newspapers, letters and diaries to uncover the feelings of the time rather than post-hoc reflections. As with former givens of 1914, such as ‘war enthusiasm’, what emerges is a more complex picture than simple naive faith in the imminent success of British and Allied arms. Treating predictions of peace as part of a coping strategy for soldiers and civilians at war, we should not be surprised to find p...
26 citations