Landscapes of the First World War

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Daly, Selena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Salvante, Martina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wilcox, Vanda (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.; World history.; Civilization-History.; Cities and towns-History.; History of Military.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Cultural History.; Urban History.

This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict. The collection focuses on four themes: environment and climate, industri...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction; Selena Daly, Martina Salvante, Vanda Wilcox
• Section 1: Environment, Climate and Weather at War
• 2 Making Oil Essential: Emerging Patterns of Petroleum Culture in the Era of the Great War; Brian Black
• 3 "Lamps never before dim are being extinguished from lack of olive oil": Deforestation and Famine in Palestine at War and in Peace under the late Ottoman Empire and early British Empire, 1910-1920; Jeffrey D. Reger
• 4 Rain and Bad Weather in Wartime: The Role of Climate and Environmental Factors during the Great War in Cameroon (1914-1916); Isidore Pascal Ndjock Nyobe
• Section 2: Urban and Industrial Landscapes Transformed
• 5 The First World War on the Streets: Urban Conformity and Citizenship in the United States'; Ross Wilson
• 6 Land of the Red Soil: War Ruins and Industrial Landscapes in Luxembourg; Sandra Camarda
• Section 3: Cross-Cultural Encounters across Landscapes
• 7 The Long Carry: Landscapes and the Shaping of British Medical Masculinities in the First World War; Jessica Meyer- 8 Scientists in Uniform: The German Military and the Investigation of the Ottoman Landscape; Oliver Stein
• 9 The Home and the World: War-Torn Landscapes and the Literary Imagination of a Bengali Military Doctor in Mesopotamia during the First World War; Samraghni Bonnerjee
• Section 4: Legacies of the First World War in Landscapes
• 10 Neither Here nor There: War Memorial Landscapes in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Emigration, 1914-1939; Aaron J. Cohen
• 11 Memory, Landscape, and the Architecture of the Imperial War Graves Commission; Tim Godden
• 12 Traces of Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on First World War Conflict Landscapes; Nicholas J. Saunders.