A new volume edited by Jennifer D. Keene and Michael S. Neiberg.
· December 2010
· ISBN 978 90 04 19182 2
· Hardback (384 pp.)
· List price EUR 126.- / US$ 179.-
· History of Warfare; 62
Representing the best of cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates the possibity of finding common ground in how cultural, social, and military historians study the war. Essays focus on the decisions of commanders, inter-allied negotiations, trench culture, prisoners of war, the sailors’ war, key developments along the Eastern Front, and how colonial troops experienced the war. Other essays consider the impact of the war on civilians under occupation, the creation of humanitarian relief missions, as well as how the memory of the war affected postwar pacifist movements and the problems faced by wounded veterans. Together these essays underscore how conversations among historians across international and cross-disciplinary boundaries result in dynamic and original scholarship that enhances our understanding of this global conflict.
Contributers are Gearóid Barry, Roger Chickering, Tim Cook, Santanu Das, Brian Feltman, Julia Eichenberg, Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Jeffrey Grey, Mark Grotelueschen, Jesse Kauffman, Branden Little, Heather Perry, Laura Rowe and David T. Zabecki.
Readership: All those interested in World War I, or the impact of war on society. Selected essays will appeal to those interested in civilians under occupation, soldiers’ frontline experiences, colonial troops, prisoners of war, and the memory of war.
Jennifer D. Keene, Ph.D. (1991) in History, Carnegie-Mellon University, is Chair and Professor of History at Chapman University. She has published extensively on the American involvement in World War I including Doughboys and the Remaking of America (Johns Hopkins, 2001).
Michael S. Neiberg, Ph.D. (1996 ) in History, Carnegie-Mellon University, is Professor of History at University of Southern Mississippi. He has wide-ranging publications on World War I, most notably Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard, 2005)
This volume originated in the conference organized in Washington, D.C. by the Society in 2007. Society’s members can download a discounted order form here.