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‘A paradise for profiteers’? The importance and treatment of profits during the First World War
Accounting History Review, 2014A. Arnold
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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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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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Journal for Maritime Research, 2015
Traditional Anglophone interpretations of the First World War have tended to be dominated by accounts of events on the Western Front with brief asides looking at the war in the East and in other th...
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Traditional Anglophone interpretations of the First World War have tended to be dominated by accounts of events on the Western Front with brief asides looking at the war in the East and in other th...
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2018
Karl Ludwig Bonhoeffer becomes involved in research into a new battlefield psychosis called shell shock or male hysteria. The question is whether it is caused by physical trauma, such as from a shell exploding over a narrow trench, or is a form of malingering. How this question is answered has far-reaching consequences.
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Karl Ludwig Bonhoeffer becomes involved in research into a new battlefield psychosis called shell shock or male hysteria. The question is whether it is caused by physical trauma, such as from a shell exploding over a narrow trench, or is a form of malingering. How this question is answered has far-reaching consequences.
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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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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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2017
A study of Franz Kafka in the context of the First World War, using the social, economic and military context to explain his perspective.
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A study of Franz Kafka in the context of the First World War, using the social, economic and military context to explain his perspective.
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2021
In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons.
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In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons.
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