
World War I
A History in Documents
Oxford University Press Inc
2nd Edition
Published on 18. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-19-973152-7 (ISBN)
Description
Offering a comprehensive account of the war as more than a purely military phenomenon, World War I: A History in Documents, Second Edition, also addresses its profound social, cultural, and economic implications. Authors Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee use editorials, memoirs, newspaper articles, poems, and letters to re-create the many facets of the war. Technological developments such as the machine gun and barbed wire brought the world trench warfare, which is vividly depicted here in a firsthand account of then-soldier Benito Mussolini. An Atlantic Monthly essay by the African-American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois draws attention to the conflict's origins in imperialist greed in Africa. A poor French girl's thank-you note to a charitable American demonstrates the plight of Europe's children. And a photo essay of poster art reveals the passion and propaganda aroused on every side.
This second edition includes an updated introduction with a note on sources and interpretation, more than forty new documents and images, and updated further reading and website lists. The new documents offer additional material on colonialism in Africa and on specific military aspects of the war, including an excerpt on the coming of war in Germany from Stefan Zweig's autobiography; a description of the Brusilov offensive; the diary of a German deserter; an account of the Christmas truce; soldiers' poetry; a diary from the Gallipoli campaign; Jan Smuts's report on fighting in east Africa; and a report from the battle of Jutland. Several new literary sources, including a poem by Anna Akhmatova, are also included. The new images of satirical German postcards and a broadside of the Proclamation of a Provisional Government of the Irish Republic allow readers to see rare ephemera and build a more textured historical understanding of the war.
This second edition includes an updated introduction with a note on sources and interpretation, more than forty new documents and images, and updated further reading and website lists. The new documents offer additional material on colonialism in Africa and on specific military aspects of the war, including an excerpt on the coming of war in Germany from Stefan Zweig's autobiography; a description of the Brusilov offensive; the diary of a German deserter; an account of the Christmas truce; soldiers' poetry; a diary from the Gallipoli campaign; Jan Smuts's report on fighting in east Africa; and a report from the battle of Jutland. Several new literary sources, including a poem by Anna Akhmatova, are also included. The new images of satirical German postcards and a broadside of the Proclamation of a Provisional Government of the Irish Republic allow readers to see rare ephemera and build a more textured historical understanding of the war.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
100 b/w halftones
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
429 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-973152-7 (9780199731527)
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Persons
Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee have taught at Yale and George Washington Universities and have been the recipients of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Alexander von Humboldt, Fulbright, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Mellon, and National Endowment for the Humanities Foundations. They are the authors of six books, the most recent of which is The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook (OUP, 2010), and maintain a website on world history.
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Content
What is a Document? ; How to Read a Document ; Introduction: The Great War ; Note on Sources and Interpretation ; Chapter One: Into the Abyss ; To War? ; The Spark ; Europe Mobilizes ; Holy War ; African Roots ; Chapter Two: Adjusting to War ; Answering the Call ; Faith and Endurance ; Reflection ; Children in the War and at Play ; Chapter Three: Meeting the Challenge ; Baptism of Fire ; Gallipoli ; The Conquest of Jerusalem ; Women: Doing Their Part ; Chapter Four: War Without Mercy ; Ignorance and Intolerance ; Tragedies of War ; Anti-German Sentiment ; Chapter Five: Picture Essay ; Advertising the War ; Chapter Six: Strains ; Body and Soul in Turmoil ; Dissidence and Disorder ; Mutiny ; Defending the Russian Revolution ; Dislike of the Unlike ; Chapter Seven: Coming to Terms ; From the Ashes ; Reparations ; Loss and Memory ; Timeline ; Further Reading ; Websites ; Text Credits ; Picture Credits ; Index