Beyond the Trenches The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War (Edition 1)

• Main Authors: Handley, Agata G, Dzikowska, Elzbieta Katarzyna, Zawilski, Piotr
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Frankfurt a.M Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2017; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang
• Edition: 1
• Series: Studies in history, memory and politics
• Subjects: Ancient; Ancient history; Europe; European history; Greece; History; History and Archaeology; Nonfiction; War and society; War and society-History-20th century; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918-Influence; World War, 1914-1918-Social aspects
• ISBN: 9783631720806; 3631720807; 9783631716380; 3631716389
• DOI: 10.3726/b11002

This collection of articles is the outcome of extensive investigations into archival materials, concerning the involvement of various nations in the Great War. The authors analyse the wartime experiences of individuals and local communities, as well as whole nations. They offer a closer, more person...

Table of Contents:

• The Middle East and the centenary of the Great War (Hassan A. Jamsheer) -- Author Biographies
• Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Łódź War Losses Assessment Committees - an undervalued source for research into the Great War in the Łódź region (Piotr Zawilski) -- Polish military formations of the First World War in documents preserved at the State Archive in Łódź (Tomasz Walkiewicz) -- The influence of World War I on the activity of the Russian military and naval clergy (Kamila Pawełczyk-Dura) -- Christian religious experiences within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War (Ionela Zaharia) -- Strange Meetings: The war poetry of Tony Harrison and Wilfred Owen (Agata G. Handley) -- Archive traces of the drama of war. Sources for investigation into the daily life of the inhabitants of cities in the Opole District in the archival fonds of the State Archive in Opole (Anna Caban) -- World war from a local perspective. School chronicles from the border areas of the Province of Posen (Prowincja Poznańska) as a source of information (Marek Szczepaniak / Grażyna Tyrchan) -- The organization and the operations of the War Alert Women's League (Tomasz Matuszak) -- East Prussia as the only province of the German Empire occupied during the Great War. Wartime histories of East Prussia (Sławomir Jan Maksymowicz) -- Ivan and the aria for the dying world. The image of Russia in the propaganda of the central powers during the Great War (Magdalena Żakowska) -- Between paralysis, crisis and renewal: The effects of the war on the polyhedral industrial city of Łódź (1914-1918) (Frank M. Schuster) -- Jews, Poles, and Germans in Łódź during the Great War: Hegemony via acknowledgment and/or negation of multiple cultures (Marcos Silber) -- Betrayed twice. The German community in the Kingdom of Poland during the Great War (Krzysztof Paweł Woźniak) -- War museums at the former frontline between Austria-Hungary and Italy during World War I (Andrea Brait)