R. J. Q. Adams, editor. The Great War, 1914–18: Essays on the Military, Political and Social History of The First World War. College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press. 1990. Pp. xii, 195. $39.50.

1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 794-795
Author(s):  
W. Michael Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
College Station ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

A Fractured Service: Frances Webster and The Great War, 1914–1918

2018 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mcguire
Keyword(s):  
Complex Mixture ◽  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Great War ◽  
American Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Born to privilege in Boston, Frances Webster, like her peers volunteered overseas with the American Red Cross as a nurse's aide. Where the activities of other Americans during the First World War is characterized as a “culture of coercive volunterism,” Webster's reflected a more complex mixture of altruism and tourism. Her history of participation in the First World War suggests historians need more multifaceted frameworks to explain Americans' First World War service.

scholarly journals THE ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR AT THE EASTERN FRONT: HISTORIOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE AND RESEARCH PROSPECTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
O. S. Nagornaia ◽  
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Y. A. Golubinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Ecological History ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

A lacuna that clearly needs to be filled and remains among various topics of the ecological history of the First World War is the Eastern front theme. The authors of this historiographical essay attempt to analyze various papers and monographs on the ecological history of the First World War, such as works on ecological history and history of technologies, works on socio- and cultural-ecological aspects of the Great War, as well as publications on the experience of military occupation at the Eastern Front and its impact on the ecosystems of different regions. A critical analysis of the achievements and limitations of modern historiography allow the authors to emphasize thematic fields of perspective research. The authors notice that the Eastern front is still obscure and largely ignored by English-speaking scholars. The historiography includes a wide variety of thematic fields. Most of them are related to environmental changes in West European war theatre, as well as in colonial landscapes. Such a view deforms the general picture of the Great War. So, the reconstruction of the military impact on the landscapes of the Eastern front, attempts to economically organize the war space by different armies on the same territories, as well as the transformations of local population's management practice, seem to correct the idea of the universality of the Western front processes and phenomena.

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