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Jack Peirs, Third Ypres, and Control

open access: yes, 2018
During the First World War, British officers, primarily upper class, struggled to adapt to trauma within the boundaries of social expectations. Viewing the combat experience and letters of Jack Peirs during the battle of Passchendaele offers insight into
Tracey, Jonathan
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Producers versus Profiteers: The Politics of Class in Newfoundland during the First World War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
During the First World War a widespread public impression that merchants were taking advantage of the conflict to extract excessive profits became a major issue in Newfoundland politics, and a cause of widespread public discontent.
O'Brien, Mike
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The Costs of Doing Hard Time: A penitentiary-based regional price index for Canada, 1883-1923 [PDF]

open access: yes
We construct consumer price indices for Canada, mainly based on the expenditure records of Canada’s federal penitentiaries. Regional price variation was much greater in Canada in the late nineteenth century than in the northern U.S.
Chris Minns, Mary Mackinnon
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Literary representation of the First World War in the context of bećarac

open access: yesPannoniana, 2016
Bećarac is a sung record of a personal tragedy, or an authentic artefact of historical events at a particular territory. Since many such verses have been written in Slavonia, the author has found it important to analyse the discourse of war.
Ana Tereza Barišić
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The United States policy in the First World War

open access: yesАмериканська історія і політика, 2017
On the anniversary of the USA entrance to the WWI, let us remind its circumstances. Back in the 19th century, isolationism dominated in the USA despite the expansion іn the Pacific and Caribean basins.
Mykhailo Kirsenko, Tetiana Balabushevych
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2. The Postwar Scene

open access: yes, 1958
Turning now from the immediate diplomatic aftermath of World War I, let us examine some major features of Western Civilization during what has been called the long weekend, the two decades between that war and World War II (1919-1939). We will note first
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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