Re-visiting World War I

Interpretations and Perspectives of the Great Conflict

Jaroslaw Suchoples, Stephanie James

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9783631674550
• eBook ISBN: 9783653066104
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

This book discusses various aspects of World War I. It focuses on topics proposed by contributors resulting from their own research interests. Nevertheless, as a result of common efforts, re-visiting those chosen aspects of the Great War of 1914–1918 enables the presentation of a volume that shows the multidimensional nature and consequences of this turning point in the history of particular nations, if not all mankind. This book, if treated as an intellectual journey through several continents, shows that World War I was not exclusively Europe's war, and that it touched – in different ways – more parts of the globe than usually considered.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction ([Jaroslaw Suchople] [Stephanie James])
• ‘The Empire for the British. “No Foreigners Need Apply”.' German and Irish-Australian Encounters with ‘British Fair Play’ during the Great War (Stephanie James)
• Aspiring Modernity. Japan’s Role in World War I (Frank Dhont)
• The Politics and Consequences of Mobilising Overseas Service. Vietnamese Workers and Soldiers during and after World War I, 1915–2015 (Frederik Rettig)
• Connecting Historical Dots. World War I and British Malaya (Noraini Md. Yusof)
• Singapore’s Sepoy Mutiny and the Beginning of Press Control in Malaya (Mohd. Safar Hasim)
• From Neutrality to Its Infringement. Holomine in Persia during World War I (Esmaeil Zeiny)
• From Noble to Nefarious. Changing Perceptions of the Arab Peoples as a Result of British Encounters in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, 1914–1918 (Helena P. Evans)
• World War I in Twentieth-Century European History (Arnd Bauerkämper)
• Italian-Speaking Austrian POWs in Russia and the Italian Involvement in the Siberian Intervention 1918–1920 (Alessandro Salvador)
• Images of Macedonia in Punch, 1912–1918 (Mika Suonpää)
• ‘To battle, go forth all heroes’. World War I Memory as a Narrative Template in Yugoslavia and Serbia (Ismar Dedović)
• Authorities at War. The Public Opinion in Germany as a Major Concern of Austrian Poets between 1914 and 1916 (Alexander Mionskowski)
• World War I and its Meanings in Czech and Slovak Societies (Tomas Sniegon)
• Europe’s ‘Seminal Catastrophe’ or the ‘Great Turning Point in the History of Mankind’? Deliberations on the Centennial of the Outbreak of the Great War from a Polish Perspective (Marek Kornat)
• World War I and Identity Construction in Eastern Europe. The Competition between All-Russian and Ukrainian Nationalisms (Aleksei I. Miller)
• In the Peripheries of Europe, on the Outskirts of Petrograd. World War I and Finland, 1914–1919 (Jaroslaw Suchoples)
• Heligoland during the Great War. A Major Theatre of War That Never Was (Jan Asmussen)
• ‘Painted history’. The Art of George Grosz in post-World War I Berlin (Raimond Selke)
• Censorship and Propaganda in World War I and Their Impact on Mass Indoctrination until Today (Eberhard Demm)
• The Trauma of World War I upon Breton Society and Its Impact in Breton-Speaking Literature (Jacques-Yves Mouton)
• Suicide or Comeback? Europe from 1914 to 2014 (Jan M. Piskorski)
• World War I and the Ethos of the American Frontier (Paul Cornelius)
• The Long War (Oliver Janz)