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Empire and Everyday: Britishness and Imperialism in Women's Lives in the Great War

Empire and Everyday: Britishness and Imperialism in Women's Lives in the Great War

... a war in which one million men of the British Empire were killed, as well as around one thousand ...the war effort was imperial, and because the British-born in the dominions were more likely to enlist than ...

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Reflections on the Great War

Reflections on the Great War

... the Great War’s causes, its expansion, and its consequences would have been ...World War thesis” that Williamson refers to rests on “the deliberate omission or marginalization of much well-known, cast-iron ...

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Making their mark: Canadian snipers and the Great War, 1914-1918.

Making their mark: Canadian snipers and the Great War, 1914-1918.

... T re n c h w a rfa re h a d e x is te d p rio r to th e G r e a t W ar. th e m o s t re c e n t e x a m p le b e in g th e B o er W ar in S o u th A frica a t th e tu r n of th e c e n tu r y . Prior to t h a t, tre n c ...

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Oxford's literary war; Oxford University's servicemen and the Great War

Oxford's literary war; Oxford University's servicemen and the Great War

... the Great War on interwar ...Great War. However, there is still a popular perception that the war was characterised by the innocent generation of 1914 marching from an Edwardian summer ...

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Great War, Civil War, and recovery : Russia's national income, 1913 to 1928

Great War, Civil War, and recovery : Russia's national income, 1913 to 1928

... the war-torn and soon-to-be-independent western ...Civil War, however, the Soviet population fell for several years because of high death rates associated with combat, infectious diseases, and ...

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Irish POWs in the Great War

Irish POWs in the Great War

... As this chapter has shown, forgetting and general amnesia about Irish soldiers prevailed, especially in the decades following the Great War. Silence and memory related to the process of state-building ...

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The Great War and Dutch Contract Law: Resistance, Responsiveness and Neutrality

The Great War and Dutch Contract Law: Resistance, Responsiveness and Neutrality

... the Great War, the Netherlands tried frantically to remain a neutral nation between the warring Central Powers and the Entente ...the war left distinct marks on Dutch society and ...the Great ...

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Great War, civil war, and recovery : Russia’s
national income, 1913 to 1928

Great War, civil war, and recovery : Russia’s national income, 1913 to 1928

... World War II (UN 1971), but its intellectual roots go back to Adam Smith and before, and go deep into the thinking of many that would be unfamiliar with its methodological ...of Great War and Civil ...

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Ireland and the Great War

Ireland and the Great War

... national war memorial, eventually sited at Islandbridge, across the River Liffey from Phoenix Park, is particularly moving and ...national war memorial in 1927, while no-one denied the sacrifice of those ...

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The Empire's Titanic Struggle: Victorian Methodism and the Great War

The Empire's Titanic Struggle: Victorian Methodism and the Great War

... The admiration for and ministrations toward the Australian soldier typified by Holden, but widely held by Australian Methodists of the period, almost necessitated the adoption of a more militant and imperialistic ...

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Literature of a Crisis: The Great War in Anglo-American Modernism

Literature of a Crisis: The Great War in Anglo-American Modernism

... the Great War is probably unique is that “it raised the spectre that through some combination of aerial bombardment and gas or bacteriological poisoning the next large war could lead to world ...

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Love and limblessness: male heterosexuality, disability, and the Great War

Love and limblessness: male heterosexuality, disability, and the Great War

... The film has an improbable plot. De La Motte plays a young woman called Rose Trenton who agrees to marry George Prothero (Matt Moore), who had been blinded during the Great War. Within a short time, Rose ...

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The Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916 1931

The Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916 1931

... Great War. To those familiar with the history of the First World War, this hardly is a ...the Great Depression became a global ...The Great War, America and the Remaking of the ...

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Evidence, History and the Great War  Historians and the Impact of 1914–18

Evidence, History and the Great War Historians and the Impact of 1914–18

... the Great War, it has scarcely effaced social history or the older tradition of military, diplomatic and political ...the Great War, including in the field of women and ...the war may ...

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'Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified' : Irish literary responses to the Great War

'Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified' : Irish literary responses to the Great War

... The Great Push, where the author seems to be rather understated by simply recording that the soldiers ‘drew our spades and ...the Great War portrays how, in a working party: ‘Each man was loaded up ...

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And the Men Returned: Canadian Veterans and the Aftermath of the Great War

And the Men Returned: Canadian Veterans and the Aftermath of the Great War

... the war. Manion was another member of the war generation disillusioned by peacetime Canada and, like fellow Conservative George Drew, Manion was also a ...the war, he served as a surgeon with the ...

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THE LEMKOS GREAT WAR: WARTIME EXPERIENCES OF THE LEMKO PEOPLE,

THE LEMKOS GREAT WAR: WARTIME EXPERIENCES OF THE LEMKO PEOPLE,

... [t]he Russian invasion did not affect or injure those villages, either. The Ruthenians, those who were patronised by the Russians, and vice versa, paid back with a great friendliness towards them. … For example, ...

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The Great War Legacy.ppt

The Great War Legacy.ppt

... • The treaty was harsher than Wilson wanted, requiring Germany.. to.[r] ...

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The Great War at Home.ppt

The Great War at Home.ppt

... U-boats are named after the German for “undersea boat.” In February 1915 the German government declared the waters around Great Britain a war zone, threatening to.. destroy all enemy[r] ...

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Outside Influences: Great War Experiences along the Canada-U.S. Border

Outside Influences: Great War Experiences along the Canada-U.S. Border

... In the late nineteenth century, many of these undesirables–most of whom were classified as such because they were poor, not criminals–came to the United States by way of Canada. The reason was simple: under American ...

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