For millennia battles were essentially affairs of linear encounter. From the 10th Century to the 20th Century, artillery generally fired directly in the two dimensional plane,limiting potential effects. The development of indirect fire changed this , two-dimensional model. Warfa…
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We know that millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but what happened after they returned home? Suzie Grogan reveals the First World War's disturbing legacy for soldiers and their families. How did a nation of broken men, and 'spa…
This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on 'shell shock' exists, this study uncover…
"This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on 'shell shock' exists, this study uncove…
Scholarly discussion of tourism's role in modern Egypt is commonly reflected as a byproduct of orientalism and Egyptomania. While this is true, tourism's relationship with colonialism in the early twentieth century is underrepresented in scholarship. Modern tourism's origins in …
In the digital age, art has become readily reproducible and widely accessible due to creativity-based advancements such as big-budget filmmaking and quick-sharing methods of dispersing information through social media platforms. As the current generation relies more heavily on d…
World War I saw the deployment of visual media propaganda on an unprecedented scale. British propaganda was far more nuanced and voluminous than the other belligerents during the conflict. Government agencies in Britain utilized the mechanism of visual presentation to bombard th…
My dissertation centers on literary representations of non-normative gender performances, the struggle around new gender norms, and the lived realities of gender in pre- and post-World War I (WWI) era France. The novels discussed in this study, L’Immoraliste (André Gide, 1902), …
O Relatório de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada reflete-se sobre o tema O Quotidiano das Trincheiras na 1ª Grande Guerra – um exemplo prático, tema de História Contemporânea, inserido nos conteúdos programáticos do 9º ano, correspondente ao domínio I: A Europa no limiar do sécul…
This thesis examines myths surrounding First World War soldier Patrick Riel and argues that white Canadian settlers have created a variety of stories about Patrick Riel’s supposedly Métis identity. Settler-propagated stories about Patrick Riel started after his untimely death in…
Srbi u Banatu imaju dugu istorijsku tradiciju o čemu svedoče brojni materijalni i pisani istorijski izvori. Grad Temišvar bio je centar Banata i njegov značaj je kroz istoriju banatskih Srba bio veliki. Temišvar je bio centar Tamiške županije, slobodni kraljevski grad, centar Sr…
World War I sparked numerous innovations in military cartography. In the Palestine theater as elsewhere, the British and Dominion forces leveraged new technologies, including aerial photography and wireless intercepts, to supplement their use of intelligence to map enemy troop p…
The Ottoman Empire's entry into the First World War in October 1914 represents a break in over a century of diplomacy in the Middle East. Previous study of late Ottoman politics has focused more upon the European states with imperial interests in the Middle East and has not adeq…
Warfare changes over time, which means no two wars are exactly alike. Armies strive to anticipate the next war, yet it is impossible to predict with perfection. Unexpected adversaries, undetected capabilities, and unforeseen goals mean gaps will exist between the war an army exp…
The geopolitical situation in the Mediterranean before the First World War has been generally ignored by historians. However, in the years before the War, the fact that the Mediterranean was shifting from British control to a wide open, anarchic state occupied the minds of many …
The First World War came to the United States to the consternation of many of its citizens, especially its German Americans. On the home front, government officials required complete adherence to the war effort. This also included religious adherence. The Wisconsin Synod Luthera…
On 2 November 1917, the British government formally issued the Balfour Declaration, one of the most important documents in defining the Middle East for the coming century. The Declaration laid the groundwork for the eventual creation of the state of Israel while at the same time…
Airpower in the First World War often has been underestimated, especially in theaters subsidiary to the Western Front. Yet, in 1918, British airpower decisively contributed to the breaking of the German-Turkish front in Palestine. General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby's Megiddo Campa…
Prevailing understanding of the Ottoman entry into Word War I has focused on the role of the Ottoman Minister of War Enver Pasha and the so-called pro-German faction in the Ottoman Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). This study examines Ottoman views on international relation…