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Other Fronts, Other Wars? goes beyond the Western Front geographically and delves behind the trenches focusing on the social and cultural history of the First World War: it covers front experiences in the Ottoman and Russian Armies, captivity in Japan and Turkey, occupation at the Eastern war theatre, medical history (epidemics in Serbia, medical treatment in Germany) and war relief (disabled soldiers in Austria). It studies the home front from the aspect of gender (loosing manliness), transnational comparisons (provincial border towns) and culture (home front entertainments in European metropoles) and gives insight on how attitudes were shaped through intellectual wars of scientists and through commemoration in Serbia. Thus the volume offers a wide range of new approaches to the history of the First World War.
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Other Fronts, Other Wars?
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History of Warfare Editors Kelly DeVries (Loyola University Maryland) John France (University of Wales, Swansea) Michael S. Neiberg (United States Army War College, Pennsylvania) Frederick Schneid (High Point University, North Carolina)
VOLUME 100
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Other Fronts, Other Wars? First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial Edited by
Joachim Bürgschwentner Matthias Egger Gunda Barth-Scalmani
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Cover illustration: Austro-Hungarian 30.5 cm mortar (Škoda) at Campolungo (Southwestern-Front) 1916. Private Collection Matthias Egger, Innsbruck, Austria. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Other fronts, other wars? : First World War studies on the eve of the centennial / edited by Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger, Gunda Barth-Scalmani. pages cm. -- (History of warfare ; 100) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-24365-1 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-27951-3 (e-book) 1. World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns. 2. World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects. 3. World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons. 4. World War, 1914-1918--Medical care. I. Bürgschwentner, Joachim, editor of compilation. II. Egger, Matthias, editor of compilation. III. Barth-Scalmani, Gunda, 1958- editor of compilation. IV. Title: First World War studies on the eve of the centennial. D521.O83 2014 940.4--dc23 2014018498
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Preface iX List of Figures xI Notes on Contributors xiIi
Introduction: Approaching the Centenary 1914–2014 1 Matthias Egger, Joachim Bürgschwentner and Gunda Barth-Scalmani
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