Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Frans Coetzee teaches in the history department at George Washington University.

Acknowledgements



Chapter 1. A "Latecomer" in War: The Case of Italy

G. Procacci



Chapter 2. The Political Police, War, and Society in Russia, 1914-1917

F. Zuckerman



Chapter 3. All Quiet on the Homefront: Popular Entertainments, Censorship and Civilian Morale in Germany, 1914-1918

G. Stark



Chapter 4. Restoring Moral Order on the Home Front: Compulsory Savings Plans for Young Workers in Germany, 1916-1919

E. Rosenhaft



Chapter 5. French Catholics, Rumeurs infames and the Union Sacrée, 1914-1918

J. F. McMillan



Chapter 6. Nationalism in Wartime: Critiquing the Conventional Wisdom

L. L. Farrar



Chapter 7. Love and Death: War and Gender in Britain, 1914-1918

S. Kingsley Kent



Chapter 8. Italian Widows of the First World War

F. Lagorio



Chapter 9. For the Fatherland and Jewish People: Jewish Women in Austria during World War I

M. Rozenblit



Chapter 10. Soldiers, Civilians, and the Warfare of Attrition: Representations of Combat in France, 1914-1918

J. Horne



Chapter 11. Masculinity, Memory, and the French World War I Novel: Henri Barbusse and Roland Dorgeles

L. V. Smith



Chapter 12. Russian General Staff Training and the Approach of War

J. Steinberg



Chapter 13. Knights of the Sky: The Rise of Military Aviation

J. H. Morrow, Jr.



Chapter 14. Communities in Mourning

J. M. Winter



Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index