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Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War
In the middle of the Great War, General Horace Smith-Dorrien, an Old Harrovian, published Harrow’s Epic of War, a short book which explained “how the...
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U.S. Elites and Scientific Mobilization After World War II
This chapter analyzes the origins of the post-World War II military-intellectual complex by examining how members of the military and scientific...
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The Second Noisy World War
This chapter focuses on the role of sound and its impacts on the civil population of Second World War Germany. In the horrible circumstances of the...
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World War I and the Origin of Sino-Japanese Conflict
This chapter focuses on World War I and the origins on Sino-Japanese conflict, attributing the Twenty-One Demands as the primary source of the...
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The Cold War and the Third World: Latin America
Recent Cold War scholarship has seen a shift in the analytical paradigm from the centre to the periphery, emphasising how North/South dynamics...
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Italy Imagined in World War II and Beyond
World War II significantly altered Italy in the American imagination yet again. The war cost the United States and Italy dearly, and as the Cold War...
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War Profits and Tax Evasion: Italian Fiscal Policies in the First World War and After the War, 1915–1924
Between 1914 and 1924, Italy had become an industrial country, the state had acquired new tasks and the earnings of private companies had grown...
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The “Barefoot War”: How World War I and British Law Disrupted Gender Structures in Mandate Palestine
Although the Great War has been alternately eulogized, glorified, and memorialized for over a century in much of western Europe, the Greater Syria...
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The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: From World War II to the Berlin Blockade
After World War II relations between the Big Three continued to deteriorate, though initially distrust did not necessarily equate to ‘Cold War’. This...
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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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The Second World War: 1939–1945
On 1 September 1939, German troops invaded Poland. Two days later, Britain declared war on Germany. Britain was set to change, and once more large...
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Astrology for Everyone: World War I and Astrology in the United States
During World War I and its initial aftermath, the US public dramatically shifted its perceptions of astrology. Previously regraded as an ancient,...
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Patient Work before World War I
Freebody situates the origin of using work as a medical therapy in moral treatment, which emerged during the early nineteenth century. Work was...
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Saving Lives in World War II
The collapse of the Third Republic and the occupation of France led to the authoritarian Vichy regime. The LDH was predictably banned, and its major...
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Historical Background: World War II and Tensions in the Wartime Alliance
This chapter introduces the roots of antagonism between the Soviet Union and the Western powers, outlining its development throughout the interwar...
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West Indian Soldiers and the Mediated, Imagined Landscapes of the First World War
Using artist Wyndham Lewis’ work as a point of departure, this chapter explores the dispersed traces of West Indian participation in the war through...
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The Post-War World: 1945–1960
On 8 May 1945, a carnival spirit swept the country as Britain celebrated the end of the war in Europe. Meanwhile, women’s groups focused on building...
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Japanese War Memory and Transnational Activism for Indonesian Survivors of Enforced Military Prostitution During World War Two
In this chapter, I analyse activism relating to survivors of the so-called comfort women system, enforced military prostitution, during World War...
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Unionism in Defeat: The Unravelling of a World War I Compact in Texas Rail Towns
During World War I, the Wilson administration intervened on an unprecedented scale to attract a stable labor force that could meet wartime demands on...
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Camouflaged War Heritage: Brecciated War Heritage Sites in Kyoto
The city of Kyoto is the historical capital of Japan, both literally and in terms of its exceptional number of cultural heritage sites, an impressive...