Military Occupations in First World War Europe

This book places military occupation at the heart of the experience of the First World War - both for occupied populations and for occupying armies.

This book was originally published as a special issue of First World War Studies.

List of contents

1. Military occupation, political imaginations, and the First World War 2. Mauvaise conduite: complicity and respectability in the occupied Nord, 1914 - 1918 3. Sursum Corda: the underground press in occupied Belgium, 1914 - 1918 4. Between recruitment and forced labour: the radicalization of German labour policy in occupied Belgium and northern France 5. 'A kind of Siberia': German labour and occupation policies in Poland and Lithuania during the First World War 6. Warsaw University under German occupation: state building and nation Bildung in Poland during the Great War 7. The fruits of occupation: food and Germany's occupation of Romania in the First World War 8. Norms of war and the Austro-Hungarian encounter with Serbia, 1914 - 1918 9. Misconceived realpolitik in a failing state: the political and economical fiasco of the Central Powers in the Ukraine, 1918

About the author

Sophie De Schaepdrijver teaches Modern European History at Penn State University, USA. She has published on military occupations in the First World War in general, and on the German occupation of Belgium in particular. She is interested in how military occupation and individual ambition intersect.

Summary

This book places military occupation at the heart of the experience of the First World War – both for occupied populations and for occupying armies. This book was originally published as a special issue of First World War Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Sophie (The Pennsylvania State U De Schaepdrijver
• Assisted by: Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138379527
• ISBN: 978-1-138-37952-7
• No. of pages: 138
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, European History, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, c 1910 to c 1919, General and world history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I