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All Quiet on Every Front: Fighting the Great War Beyond No Man’s Land
This chapter serves as an introduction to New Perspectives on the First World War: Beyond No Man’s Land, and it engages relevant historical and...
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Britain, the Middle East, and Oman
This chapter examines the development of the Anglo-Omani relationship from 1798, and the factors which led the British to establish a position of...
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Conclusions
The concluding chapter provides an overview of the war’s aftermath, and Oman’s socio-economic transformation under Qaboos’ reign. It also summarises...
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War and Welfare: Separation Allowances in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States
This chapter will explore the multifaceted ways the Great War transformed social welfare policies in Europe and the United States. Traditional...
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Of Rats and Men: The Decisive Role of Rodents on the Western Front
One would be hard pressed to find World War I scholarship without some level of environmental influence. Indeed, historians of the conflict cannot...
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Great Britain’s World War I Naval Blockade of Germany: International Law Versus the Trident of Neptune
Historical coverage of naval wars often rests on great battles between fleets but overlooks that navies greatly affect the course of war through...
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‘Hearts and Minds’
This chapter provides both a critical analysis of Britain’s mythologised conduct of counter-insurgency warfare, and also assesses the extent to which...
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The Crusades Against the Hussites in Bohemia (1419–1436)
This chapter provides an overview of the history of the crusades against the Hussites, including the religious, political, and social dynamics of the...
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Crusades in the Holy Roman Empire (Late 1220s to the Early 1250s)
Starting from the second quarter of the thirteenth century, the regions of the Holy Roman Empire north of the Alps became the theatre of crusades....
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Crusade Against Christian Neighbours in the Baltic. Boniface IX’s Crusading Bull of 1401 to Queen Margaret I of the Kalmar Union
The Baltic crusades are usually associated with conflicts against the pagan tribes of the region, but an element that is often overlooked is that...
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Crusades in Northern Italy in the Fourteenth Century
Central and northern Italy witnessed numerous crusading conflicts in the fourteenth century. This chapter will provide an overview of these...
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Blood and Iron
This chapter analyses ideas of national independence and how these were affected by fear of annihilation in many cases of nineteenth-century...
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Hard Times
This chapter analyses the political problems in Scandinavia in the 1840s with a special focus on the Danish unitary state. The Danish-German...
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After Napoleon
This chapter recounts the upheaval brought upon the Scandinavian countries by the Napoleonic Wars, which led them all to the brink of annihilation,...
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Scandinavianism in Political Practice
The end of the Crimean War was followed by a marked shift in Scandinavian foreign policy. Having incurred the wrath of Russia and secured a treaty of...
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A Foreign Country
The last chapter of the book returns to the discussion raised in its first chapter, where traditionalist Scandinavian historiography was pitted...
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From Zenith to Twilight
Usually regarded by historians as the definite end point of political Scandinavianism, Denmark’s defeat in 1864 was anything but. As this chapter...
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The Scandinavian Alliance
By early 1863, the Danish-German conflict was coming close to its point of culmination. This chapter first discusses how leading and increasingly...
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The Scandinavian Question
This chapter spans the years 1859–1862, a crucial phase in the continued escalation of the Danish-German conflict as well as for Scandinavian...
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Rus’ as a Target of the Crusades: History and Historical Memory
The military conflicts between Rus’ian Prince Alexander Nevsky and the Catholic powers in the thirteenth century are commonly associated with...