The Myriad Legacies of 1917 A Year of War and Revolution /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Abbenhuis, Maartje (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Atkinson, Neill (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Baird, Kingsley (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Romano, Gail (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Military history.; History, Modern.; World history.; Imperialism.; World politics.; History of Military.; Modern History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Political History.

This book explores the ramifications of 1917, arguing that it was a cataclysmic year in world history. In this volume, thirteen scholars reflect on the myriad legacies of the year 1917 as a year of war, revolution, upheaval and change. Crisscrossing the globe and drawing on a range of disciplinary a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Death's carnival: The myriad legacies of 1917; Maartje Abbenhuis
• 2. War and anxiety in 1917; Jay Winter
• 3. American entry into the First World War as an historiographical problem; Michael S. Neiberg
• 4. The Maori war effort at home and abroad in 1917; Monty Soutar
• 5. India's silver bullets: War loans and war propaganda, 1917-18; Radhika Singha
• 6. Artists and writers between tragedy and camouflage; Annette Becker
• 7. From Cursed Days to 'Sunstroke': The authenticity of Ivan Bunin's recollections of the Bolshevik revolution in the 1920s; Galina Rylkova
• 8.Temporary sahibs: Terriers in India in 1917; Peter Stanley
• 9. The German-Ottoman alliance, the Caucasus, and the impact of the Russian revolutions of 1917; Thomas Schmutz
• 10. New Zealand and 'the catastrophic year 1917'; Glyn Harper
• 11.1917 in Flanders fields: The seeds for the commemorative war landscape in Belgian Flanders; Piet Chielens
• 12. Passchendaele: Remembering and forgetting in New Zealand; Jock Phillips
• 13. The forgotten break in history: The First World War and the year 1917 in German commemorative culture; Gorch Pieken
• Index.