Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War

Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9783030427917
ISBN-13 : 3030427919
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War by : Federica G. Pedriali

This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation. It explores eight different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it interrogates one of the most challenging facets of the history of the Great War, one that keeps raising key questions on the way cultures respond to times of crisis. Mobilization during the First World War was a major process of material and imaginative engagement unfolding on a military, economic, political and cultural level, and existing identities were dramatically challenged and questioned by the whirl of discourses and representations involved.

Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War

Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 3030427935
ISBN-13 : 9783030427931
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War by : Federica G. Pedriali

This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation. It explores eight different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it interrogates one of the most challenging facets of the history of the Great War, one that keeps raising key questions on the way cultures respond to times of crisis. Mobilization during the First World War was a major process of material and imaginative engagement unfolding on a military, economic, political and cultural level, and existing identities were dramatically challenged and questioned by the whirl of discourses and representations involved.

State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War

State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 0521561124
ISBN-13 : 9780521561129
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War by : John Horne

This is a volume of comparative essays on the First World War that focuses on one central feature: the political and cultural "mobilization" of the populations of the main belligerent countries in Europe behind the war. It explores how and why they supported the war for so long (as soldiers and civilians), why that support weakened in the face of the devastation of trench warfare, and why states with a stronger degree of political support and national integration (such as Britain and France) were ultimately successful.

Mobilizing the Russian Nation

Mobilizing the Russian Nation
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781107093867
ISBN-13 : 1107093864
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobilizing the Russian Nation by : Melissa Kirschke Stockdale

This study of Russian mobilization in the Great War explores how the war shaped national identity and conceptions of citizenship.

Mobilizing in Uncertainty

Mobilizing in Uncertainty
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : 9781501753770
ISBN-13 : 1501753770
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobilizing in Uncertainty by : Anastasia Shesterinina

How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, Anastasia Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict. Her fresh approach underscores the uncertain nature of the first days of the war when Georgian forces had a preponderance of manpower and arms. Mobilizing in Uncertainty demonstrates, in contrast to explanations that assume individuals know the risk involved in mobilization and make decisions based on that knowledge, that the Abkhaz anticipated risk in ways that were affected by their earlier experiences and by social networks at the time of mobilization. What Shesterinina uncovers is that to make sense of the violence, Abkhaz leaders, local authority figures, and others relied on shared understandings of the conflict and their roles in it—collective conflict identities—that they had developed before the war. As appeals traveled across society, people consolidated mobilization decisions within small groups of family and friends and based their actions on whom they understood to be threatened. Their decisions shaped how the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict unfolded and how people continued to mobilize during and after the war. Through this detailed analysis of Abkhaz mobilization from prewar to postwar, Mobilizing in Uncertainty sheds light on broader processes of violence, which have lasting effects on societies marked by intergroup conflict.

Women's Identities at War

Women's Identities at War
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 357
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ISBN-10 : 9781469620817
ISBN-13 : 1469620812
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Women's Identities at War by : Susan R. Grayzel

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when, for the first time, "home" and "domestic" became adjectives that modified the military term "front." Such an innovation acknowledged the significant and presumably new contributions of civilians, especially women, to the war effort. Yet, as Susan Grayzel argues, throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of--and indeed reemphasis on--soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities. Drawing on sources that range from popular fiction and war memorials to newspapers and legislative debates, Grayzel analyzes the effects of World War I on ideas about civic participation, national service, morality, sexuality, and identity in wartime Britain and France. Despite the appearance of enormous challenges to gender roles due to the upheavals of war, the forces of stability prevailed, she says, demonstrating the Western European gender system's remarkable resilience.

The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship

The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780567680792
ISBN-13 : 0567680797
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The First World War and the Mobilization of Biblical Scholarship by : Andrew Mein

This fascinating collection of essays charts, for the first time, the range of responses by scholars on both sides of the conflict to the outbreak of war in August 1914. The volume examines how biblical scholars, like their compatriots from every walk of life, responded to the great crisis they faced, and, with relatively few exceptions, were keen to contribute to the war effort. Some joined up as soldiers. More commonly, however, biblical scholars and theologians put pen to paper as part of the torrent of patriotic publication that arose both in the United Kingdom and in Germany. The contributors reveal that, in many cases, scholars were repeating or refining common arguments about the responsibility for the war. In Germany and Britain, where the Bible was still central to a Protestant national culture, we also find numerous more specialized works, where biblical scholars brought their own disciplinary expertise to bear on the matter of war in general, and this war in particular. The volume's contributors thus offer new insights into the place of both the Bible and biblical scholarship in early 20th-century culture.

Nations, Identities and the First World War

Nations, Identities and the First World War
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781350036451
ISBN-13 : 1350036455
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Nations, Identities and the First World War by : Nico Wouters

Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by different social, ethnic, political and religious groups during the conflict and its aftermath. The book combines chapters on broad topics like propaganda state formation, town and nation, and minorities at war, with more specific case studies in order to deepen our understanding of how processes of national identification supported the cultures of total war in Europe. This transnational volume also reveals and develops a range of insightful connections between the themes it covers, as well as between different groups within Europe and different countries and regions, including Western and Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and colonial territories. It is a vital study for all students and scholars of the First World War.

Ethnic Mobilization, Violence, and the Politics of Affect

Ethnic Mobilization, Violence, and the Politics of Affect
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9783319482934
ISBN-13 : 3319482939
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethnic Mobilization, Violence, and the Politics of Affect by : Adis Maksić

This book offers an unprecedented account of the Serb Democratic Party’s origins and its political machinations that culminated in Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II. Within the first two years of its existence, the nationalist movement led by the infamous genocide convict Radovan Karadzic, radically transformed Bosnian society. It politically homogenized Serbs of Bosnia-Herzegovina, mobilized them for the Bosnian War, and violently carved out a new geopolitical unit, known today as Republika Srpska. Through innovative and in-depth analysis of the Party’s discourse that makes use of the recent literature on affective cognition, the book argues that the movement’s production of existential fears, nationalist pride, and animosities towards non-Serbs were crucial for creating Serbs as a palpable group primed for violence. By exposing this nationalist agency, the book challenges a commonplace image of ethnic conflicts as clashes of long-standing ethnic nations.

Picture This

Picture This
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780803226951
ISBN-13 : 0803226950
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Picture This by : Pearl James

Essays by Jay Winter, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jennifer D. Keene, and others reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I.℗¡Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the.