Landscapes of the First World War /
This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict. The collection focuses on four themes: environment and climate, industri...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Landscapes of War: A Fertile Terrain for First World War Scholarship / Selena Daly, Martina Salvante and Vanda Wilcox
- Part I. Environment, Climate and Weather at War : 2. Making Oil Essential: Emerging Patterns of Petroleum Culture in the United States During the Era of the Great War / Brian Black
- 3. "Lamps Never Before Dim Are Being Extinguished form Lack of Olive Oil": Deforestation and Famine in Palestine at War and in Peace Under the Late Ottoman Empire and Early British Empire, 1910-1920 / Jeffrey D. Reger
- 4. Rain and Bad Weather During War: The Role of Climate and Environment During the Great War in Cameroon (1914-1916) / Isidore Pascal Ndjock Nyobe
- Part II. Urban and Industrial Landscapes Transformed : 5. The First World War on the Streets: Urban Conformity and Citizenship in the United States / Ross Wilson
- Land of the Red Soil: War Ruins and Industrial Landscapes in Luxembourg / Sandra Camarda
- Part III. Cross-Cultural Encounters With Landscapes : 7. The Long Carry: Landscapes and the Shaping of British Medical Masculinities in the First World War / Jessica Meyer
- 8. Scientists in Uniform: The German Military and the Investigation of the Ottoman Landscape / Oliver Stein
- 9. The Home and the World: War-Torn Landscapes and the Literary Imagination of a Bengali Military Doctor in Mesopotamia During the First World War / Samraghni Bonnerjee
- Part IV. Legacies of the First World War in Landscapes : 10. Neither Here Nor There: War Memorial Landscapes in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Emigration, 1914-1939 / Aaron J. Cohen
- 11. Memory, Landscape and the Architecture of the Imperial War Graves Commission / Tim Godden
- 12. Traces of Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on First World War Conflict Landscapes / Nicholas J. Saunders
- Select Bibliography
- Index