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Choice Reviews Online, 2001
Britain was the most successful of the nineteenth-century European powers in expanding its territory overseas, but that very success brought an increasing nervousness and sense of vulnerability as well as prestige and status as a world power. As early as the 1830s, the possession of India had led to growing fears about the threat of Russian expansion ...
Margaret Lamb, Nicholas Tarling
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Britain was the most successful of the nineteenth-century European powers in expanding its territory overseas, but that very success brought an increasing nervousness and sense of vulnerability as well as prestige and status as a world power. As early as the 1830s, the possession of India had led to growing fears about the threat of Russian expansion ...
Margaret Lamb, Nicholas Tarling
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A supernatural war: magic, divination, and faith during the First World War
First World War Studies, 2019Historically, wars have always witnessed reports of ghostly sightings and visions. However, the First World War is of particular interest as such phenomena occurred in a more modern, secular environment, at a time when science and secularisation had ...
Jessica Meyer
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Internment during the First World War
Internment during the First World War, 2018Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occurred during the First World War when, in the interests of ‘security’ in a situation of total ...
S. Manz, P. Panayi, M. Stibbe
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The English Historical Review, 1968
In 1909 Norman Angell published his polemic The Great Illusion, in which he argued that the increasingly international character of trade, commerce and finance had rendered wars between sovereign states not merely unprofitable, but positively harmful to victors and vanquished alike.
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In 1909 Norman Angell published his polemic The Great Illusion, in which he argued that the increasingly international character of trade, commerce and finance had rendered wars between sovereign states not merely unprofitable, but positively harmful to victors and vanquished alike.
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Environmental Histories of the First World War
, 2018This anthology surveys the ecological impacts of the First World War. Editors Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid bring together a list of experienced authors who explore the global interactions of states, armies, civilians ...
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Women and Alcohol During the First World War in Ireland
Irish Women in the First World War Era, 2016This article considers the portrayal of Irish women and alcohol during the First World War in the nationalist press. It argues that press polemic castigated women for drinking because it conflicted with conservative beliefs about women's roles, which ...
H. Dunbar
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2013
Introduction: New Perspectives on First World War Nursing Christine E. Hallett and Alison S. Fell Part 1: National Identities 1. Making Sister Julie: The Origin of First World War French Nursing Heroines in Franco-Prussian War Stories Margaret H. Darrow 2. "Beacons of Britishness": British Nurses and Female Doctors as Prisoners of War Angela K. Smith 3.
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Introduction: New Perspectives on First World War Nursing Christine E. Hallett and Alison S. Fell Part 1: National Identities 1. Making Sister Julie: The Origin of First World War French Nursing Heroines in Franco-Prussian War Stories Margaret H. Darrow 2. "Beacons of Britishness": British Nurses and Female Doctors as Prisoners of War Angela K. Smith 3.
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1987
On 28 June 1914 a nineteen-year-old Bosnian named Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir to the Habsburg throne, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie in Sarejevo, capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. After a flurry of diplomatic activity and a series of ultimatums and mobilisations, the First World War broke out 39 days later ...
Frank B. Tipton, Robert Aldrich
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On 28 June 1914 a nineteen-year-old Bosnian named Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir to the Habsburg throne, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie in Sarejevo, capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. After a flurry of diplomatic activity and a series of ultimatums and mobilisations, the First World War broke out 39 days later ...
Frank B. Tipton, Robert Aldrich
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The Historical Journal, 2000
This book explains the First World War in a manner the lay person can understand, and the expert will still find intriguing. It covers a broad canvas, but does so with great economy. The origins of the war, both diplomatic and social, are discussed in a particularly illuminating fashion. The reader is then taken through the major battles on the Eastern
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This book explains the First World War in a manner the lay person can understand, and the expert will still find intriguing. It covers a broad canvas, but does so with great economy. The origins of the war, both diplomatic and social, are discussed in a particularly illuminating fashion. The reader is then taken through the major battles on the Eastern
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2002
In August 1914 what had been threatened half a dozen times over the previous decade actually occurred: a war began in Europe that involved the great powers and soon became world-wide. The war was hardly a surprise, for Europe was armed to the teeth. In order to maintain the largest armies possible with the latest military equipment, governments had ...
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In August 1914 what had been threatened half a dozen times over the previous decade actually occurred: a war began in Europe that involved the great powers and soon became world-wide. The war was hardly a surprise, for Europe was armed to the teeth. In order to maintain the largest armies possible with the latest military equipment, governments had ...
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