Small nations and colonial peripheries in World War I
"This edited volume examines the experience of World War I of small nations, defined here in terms of their relative weakness vis-à-vis the major actors in European diplomacy, and colonial peripheries, encompassing areas that were subject to colonial rule by European empires and thus located fa...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leiden Boston : Brill,
[2016]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | History of warfare
volume 109 |
| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | History of warfare |
| Schlagworte: | World War, 1914-1918 States, Small Imperialism Nationalism Neutrality Erster Weltkrieg Diplomatie Kleinstaat Imperialismus Nationalismus mehr... |
| Umfang: | XII, 303 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Part 1. Shifting identities in the global warTowards an interconnected history of World War I : Europe and beyond / Gearoid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago and Roisin Healy
- The revolutionary program of the German empire : the case of Ireland / Christine Strotmann
- "I want citizens' clothes" : Irish and German-Americans respond to war, 1914-1917 / Michael Neiberg
- Part 2. Small nations
- Protestant nationalists and the Irish conscription crisis, 1918 / Conor Morrissey
- POWs and civilian internees in Ireland during World War I / William Buck
- Neutral allies or immoral pariahs? : Scandinavian neutrality, international law and Great Power politics in World War I / Michael Jonas
- Civil and military relations in Spain in the context of World War I / Richard Gow
- World War I and its impact on Catalonia / Florian Grafl
- Fabricating national unity in torn contexts : World War I in the multilingual countries of Switzerland and Luxembourg / Ingrid Bruhwiler and Matias Gardin
- Imperial service, alienation, and an unlikely national "rebirth" : the Poles in World War I / Jens Boysen
- The Ukrainian moment of World War I / Guido Hausmann
- Part 3. War and its prelude
- Small war on a violent frontier : colonial warfare and British intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919 / Steven Balbirnie
- Fighting for the tsar, fighting against the tsar : the use of folk culture to mobilize the Tatar population during World War I and the Russian Revolution, (1914-1921) / Danielle Ross
- Continuing the great game : Turkestan as a German objective in World War I / David X. Noack
- Paths not taken : Mukhtar al-Ayari and alternative voices in post-war Tunisia / Chris Rominger
- Defining imperial citizenship in the shadow of World War I : equality and difference in the debates around post-war colonial reform in Algeria / Donal Hassett.
- Includes bibliographical references and index