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Soldado de África! Quantas medalhas te puseram no peito? Portugal e África numa Guerra Global

Ler História, 2014
Why being the Portuguese empire so embedded in the Portuguese imaginary the African war front where Portugal was present between 1914 and 1918, and to where the country mobilized around 50,000 men ended up overshadowed by the non-consensual intervention ...
Maria Fernanda Rollo
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Demographic losses of Serbia in the first world war and their long-term consequences [PDF]

Ekonomski Anali, 2014
Proportional to the total population, Serbia was the country with the highest number of casualties in the First World War. According to the first estimates presented at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, total Serbian casualties were 1,250,000,
Radivojević Biljana, Penev Goran
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Des caisses, des œuvres et des hommes. Une histoire logistique de l’art durant la Grande Guerre

Perspective, 2022
Questions relating to the physical transport of objects, often left aside by historiography instead concentrated on the phenomena of artistic circulation and transfer, are decisive in the context of a conflict such as the Great War due to demanding ...
Solène Amice
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Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War Centenary

Commemorating Race and Empire in The First World War Centenary, 2018
In November 2016, at the halfway point of the First World War Centenary, a modest exhibition based on volunteer research and supported by the UK Heritage Lottery Fund opened in the London suburb of Wood Green.
Ben Wellings, Shanti Sumartojo, M. Graves   +2 more
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Conny Kristel, De oorlog van anderen. Nederlanders en oorlogsgeweld, 1914–1918

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017
Conny Kristel, De oorlog van anderen. Nederlanders en oorlogsgeweld, 1914–1918 (Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij, 2016, 368 pp, isbn: 978023497394).
Maartje Abbenhuis
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Commemorating a ‘Foreign’ War in a Neutral Country The Political Insignificance of World War 1 Memory in the Netherlands

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2016
The recent creation of a First World War museum exhibit at Huis Doorn reflects the increased Dutch attention paid to this war, accompanying the international Centenary efforts, although the neutral Netherlands had not been actively involved in the ...
Kees Ribbens
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Environmental Histories of the First World War

, 2018
This 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 ...
R. Tucker, J. M. Keller, M. Schmid, Frontmatter   +3 more
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The centenary commemorations of the Great War in Belgium

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2016
As the start of the centenary commemoration of the First World War (wwi) in 2014 drew closer, Belgium saw the rise of a bigger ‘commemorative competition’. The different governments launched their own commemorative programmes, parallel to (and sometimes
Nico Wouters
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The Rhetoric of Disfigurement in First World War Britain [PDF]

Soc Hist Med, 2011
During the First World War, the horror of facial mutilation was evoked in journalism, poems, memoirs and fiction; but in Britain it was almost never represented visually outside the professional contexts of clinical medicine and medical history.
Biernoff, Suzannah, S. Biernoff
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WARS, GENOCIDE, BLOCKADES

Armenological Issues
The examples described here show that wars not only provide occasions and camouflage for carrying out genocidal intentions, but degenerate into wars of extermination when intentions of conquest and subjugation merge with intentions of extermination ...
Tessa Hofmann
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