Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens - A World War I Sourcebook

Informationen zum Autor Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee are independent scholars; they have previously taught at Yale and George Washington Universities. Marilyn is the author of The German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany (1990) and Frans the author of For Party or Country: Nationalism and the Dilemmas of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian England (1990).  Together, they have co-edited Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War (1995); World War I and European Society: A Sourcebook (1995); World War I: A History in Documents, Second Edition (2011); and The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook (2011). Klappentext Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens 2/e offers a vivid range of eyewitness perspectives - from female munitions workers to Indian troops in France - which explore the social, cultural, and military dimensions of World War I. This second edition includes added material to reflect the very latest historical thinking.* Combines documents and themes that have proven successful in the first edition with new sources and topics that are currently at the forefront of historical debate and research* Now features 59 new documents which illustrate the imperial dimensions of the conflict and broaden the coverage of 'war culture' and developments in Eastern Europe* Documents have been included which pay particular attention to the experiences and perspectives of ordinary people, whose voices are often underrepresented in broad accounts* The bibliography has been expanded and completely updated, complemented by a new series of maps and illustrations "This accessible addition to source material on WW I should facilitate a focused yet general understanding of the war's incredible scope without overwhelming readers with the detailed minutiae often found in primary source material. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates; general readers." ( Choice , 1 September 2013) Zusammenfassung Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens 2/e offers a vivid range of eyewitness perspectives - from female munitions workers to Indian troops in France - which explore the social, cultural, and military dimensions of World War I. This second edition includes added material to reflect the very latest historical thinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps xiii Chronology xv Preface xix I The Mood of 1914 1 War Comes to France 6 1. A Nation Suddenly United 7 2. We Shall Be without Fear 12 3. On the Way to the Front 14 Russia: For the Tsar and Motherland 15 4. The View from St. Petersburg 15 5. Russia's Popular Mood 18 Germany: For the Kaiser and Fatherland 18 6. A Just War against England 19 7. The Socialist Alternative 21 8. German Socialists Support the War 22 9. Thoughts on Mobilization 23 Britain and the Empire Mobilize 23 10. Popular Hysteria 24 11. Recruiting for War 26 12. A British Student in Arms 29 13. A Canadian Clergyman at War 31 14. The View from the Cameroons 33 II War on the Western Front 37 Adapting to Trench Warfare 40 1. Life Different as Possible 41 2. The Attack 45 3. War is Like a Big Picnic 49 4. All the World Over a Boy is a Boy, a Mother a Mother 51 5. War Diary of the Seaforth Highlanders 53 6. A Working Party 55 7. A Canadian in the Trenches 56 8. Report on the Afternoon's Actions 58 9. Indian Units in France 59 Commitment, Duty or Disillusion: German Students Assess the War 61 10. The Readiness to Make a Sacrifice 62 11. My Life is no Longer My Own 64 12. I Look upon Death and Call upon Life 65 13. Here One becomes another Man 66 14. Copse 125 67 Humor and Morale 69 15. War...

List of contents

List of Maps xiii
 
Chronology xv
 
Preface xix
 
I The Mood of 1914 1
 
War Comes to France 6
 
1. A Nation Suddenly United 7
 
2. We Shall Be without Fear 12
 
3. On the Way to the Front 14
 
Russia: For the Tsar and Motherland 15
 
4. The View from St. Petersburg 15
 
5. Russia's Popular Mood 18
 
Germany: For the Kaiser and Fatherland 18
 
6. A Just War against England 19
 
7. The Socialist Alternative 21
 
8. German Socialists Support the War 22
 
9. Thoughts on Mobilization 23
 
Britain and the Empire Mobilize 23
 
10. Popular Hysteria 24
 
11. Recruiting for War 26
 
12. A British Student in Arms 29
 
13. A Canadian Clergyman at War 31
 
14. The View from the Cameroons 33
 
II War on the Western Front 37
 
Adapting to Trench Warfare 40
 
1. Life Different as Possible 41
 
2. The Attack 45
 
3. War is Like a Big Picnic 49
 
4. All the World Over a Boy is a Boy, a Mother a Mother 51
 
5. War Diary of the Seaforth Highlanders 53
 
6. A Working Party 55
 
7. A Canadian in the Trenches 56
 
8. Report on the Afternoon's Actions 58
 
9. Indian Units in France 59
 
Commitment, Duty or Disillusion: German Students Assess the War 61
 
10. The Readiness to Make a Sacrifice 62
 
11. My Life is no Longer My Own 64
 
12. I Look upon Death and Call upon Life 65
 
13. Here One becomes another Man 66
 
14. Copse 125 67
 
Humor and Morale 69
 
15. War 70
 
16. Ten German Pioneers 71
 
17. Rats 72
 
III War to the East and South 73
 
The Eastern Front 77
 
1. Tannenberg 78
 
2. Bad Things are Good Things under Adverse Circumstances 79
 
3. Not a Beaten Army 83
 
4. The Russian Turmoil 84
 
5. War in the East 85
 
6. Serbia's War 86
 
7. The Army behind Barbed Wire 88
 
8. Among Prisoners of War 90
 
War in the Mediterranean 93
 
9. The Italian Front 93
 
10. Gallipoli 97
 
11. The ANZAC Experience 99
 
12. The Turkish Defense 101
 
13. Palestine Campaigns 104
 

Africa and Asia 113
 
14. The Use of Native Troops 113
 
15. A Doctor in Damaraland 116
 
16. Petition to King George V 117
 
17. The Fall of Tsingtao 119
 
18. Japan's Twenty-One Demands 121
 
IV Combat in the Machine Age 125
 
Technology and the Battlefield 128
 
1. The Dominance of the Machine Gun 128
 
2. Gas Warfare 130
 
3. Gas at the Front 132
 
4. Tanks at Ypres 133
 
5. Shell Shock 136
 
6. Picture of Desolation 137
 
The Naval War 139
 
7. Battle at Sea 140
 
8. Rusting at Anchor 142
 
9. Jutland 143
 
10. Adventures of the U-202 145
 
The Aerial War 148
 
11. Zeppelin 148
 
12. Air Raids 150
 
13. The Importance of the Airplane 152
 
14. A Superior Pilot 154
 
15. In the Clouds above Baghdad 156
 
V Mobilizing the Home Front 159
 
The State 163
 
1. The War and British Liberties 164
 
2. The State as the Supreme God 165
 
3. Germany's Government at War 166
 
4. Censorship 168
 
5. War, Prostitution, and Venereal Disease in Germany 172
 
6. The Russian State 175
 

7. Russian Education 176
 
The Economy 178
 
8. Economic Exhaustion in Southeastern Eur

Report

"This accessible addition to source material on WW I should facilitate a focused yet general understanding of the war's incredible scope without overwhelming readers with the detailed minutiae often found in primary source material. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates; general readers." ( Choice , 1 September 2013)

Product details

• Authors: Frans Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin Coetzee, M Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn (Independent Scholar) Coet Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn Coetzee Shevin-Coetzee
• Assisted by: Coetzee (Editor), Coetzee (Editor), Frans Coetzee (Editor), Marilyn Shevin Coetzee (Editor), Marily Shevin-Coetzee (Editor), Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee (Editor), Shevin-Coetzee Marilyn (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9780470655832
• ISBN: 978-0-470-65583-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Geschichte, History, Weltkrieg I, Social & cultural history, Geschichte u. Zeitgeschichte des 20./21. Jahrhunderts, Twentieth Century & Contemporary History, Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte