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Tara Talwar Windsor
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 229–246, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaa005
Published: 01 May 2020
... the development of increasingly complex, heterogeneous and inclusive understandings and memories of the Great War in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how the novel’s complex and intricate narrative, as well as its paratextual framing and much of its reception, offer a timely engagement with a range...
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James J Harris
Social History of Medicine, Volume 33, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 604–621, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky119
Published: 26 December 2018
.... Herrington, T. R. Elliott and A. Balfour, eds, History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Medical Services. Diseases of the War, 2 vols (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1923), I, 175. During the second wave, influenza became a notifiable disease in the British Army, at least...
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Andrekos Varnava
Social History of Medicine, Volume 33, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 173–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky031
Published: 26 April 2018
... to the first and how effective these measures were. The article argues that the two approaches were very different, yet both were grounded in a social conservatism, especially the wartime campaign. venereal diseases British Colonial Cyprus the Great War and diseases inter-war years and diseases Cypriot...
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Patrizia Piredda
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 51, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 417–428, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqv054
Published: 18 September 2015
... of reason. Renato Serra Immanuel Kant ethics reason freedom interventismo the Great War Da che esistono uomini, viventi e operanti sulla terra, esiste anche un problema etico; cioè un bisogno negli uomini di riflettere sulle loro azioni e di trovarne una ragione. In un certo senso, tutta la...
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Rebekah Lockyer
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 2014, Pages 426–452, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqu040
Published: 01 October 2014
... and Sondra Smith (1989), this article contends that the writer's musicality finds its ultimate outlet in his Great War tetralogy, Parade's End (1924–1928). By examining the relationship between particular moments within the text and passages from Wagner's Tannhäuser and Tristan und...
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Eugenia Tognotti
Social History of Medicine, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2003, Pages 97–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/16.1.97
Published: 01 April 2003
.... This was an illusion destined to surface again at the end of the century and collapse with the advent of AIDS. Great War; Spanish flu; influenza pandemics; bacteriological warfare; Pfeiffer's bacillus; virus; scientific rashness ...
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SANDRA M. TOMKINS
Social History of Medicine, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 435–454, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/5.3.435
Published: 01 December 1992
... epidemic of 1918–19. The episode is located in the context of the Great War, the evolution of the medical profession, and official public health policy. Motivated primarily by concern for their recently-acquired status, medical professionals and public health administrators deprecated the virulence...
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Published: 29 March 2018
... during the post-World War I period. It posits a general question: what is the relationship between nation-making and war violence? It provides a brief overview of key events and historical developments in the Lithuanian–Polish borderland from the Great War to the end of the Polish–Lithuanian War...
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Published: 25 September 2014
..., Smiths emerges strong and profitable by the late 1920s Marsh Hubert acquisitions Cricklewood factory Great War inflation Munitions of War Act 1915 Newman Hender Smith & Son S Gordon Smith Allan diversification Financial Times motor business Arnold George Cotterell Francis Nichols...
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Published: 17 June 2004
...This chapter puts the Liberal support of the Great War in the context of 19th-century British Liberalism. This legacy places an exceptionally high degree of value on Reason, a priority that results often in a reliance on verbal reason over factual evidence. This susceptibility is evidenced...
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Published: 09 June 2011
...This chapter examines the German legacies of imperialism and violence abroad, focusing on the life of military officer Hans Paasche. It discusses German colonial violence in Africa and how that violence was transposed to the home front. It also explains the impact of the Great War on national...
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Published: 01 July 2015
... relates the military content to the author’s Great War experiences and his contribution to modern Great War reception, his friendship with T. E. Lawrence, his fascination with archery, and the deployment of cavalry in both ancient and early twentieth-century warfare. Presentation in the novel...
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Published: 07 February 2019
... Painlevé Paul Ceadel Martin Le Foyer Lucien Nazi s Vichy regime Gougenheim André Hadamard Jacques Kahn Emile Poincaré Raymond Clemenceau Georges Gide Charles Moscow Purge Trials Russian Revolution Bolshevik or November Soviet Union Sudeten question Great War Franco-Russian Alliance Russian...
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Published: 30 December 2021
...: 10.1093/oso/9780192843739.003.0008 The ‘Spanish’ Flu pandemic was remembered differently in the neighbouring Low Countries of Belgium and the Netherlands. During the Great War, almost all of Belgium was occupied by German troops. Although the pandemic was reported in the censored press, the attention...
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Published: 05 January 2016
..., who failed to reunify society: Scriabin through his death in 1915; Rachmaninoff through his pessimistic outlook on events; and Medtner through his now unacceptable “German” identity. Akimenko Fedor Stepanovich educated society obshchestvennost’ Great War mystery Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche’s...
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Published: 12 January 1997
... in 1906 and claimed that Germany was ready to invade Britain. For other authors such as A. A. Milne, Heath Robinson, and P. G. Wodehouse, the tale of ‘the Next Great War’ was a subject for ridicule. Charles Lowe criticised ‘the baneful industry’ of future-war fiction and challenged the myth of the German...
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Published: 01 September 2015
...This essay complicates the dominant literary-historical narrative by comparing Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room (1922) and To the Lighthouse (1927) with Christopher Isherwood’s The Memorial (1932) in the context of the Great War and the national...
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Published: 18 January 2022
...British military writers typically championed foxhunting (or "riding to hounds") as ideal preparation for cavalry service—an idea that retained its vitality after the Boer War but became a nostalgic trope following the Great War. Chapter 5, "Hunting in the Trenches," compares and contrasts British...
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Published online: 19 May 2022
Published in print: 18 January 2022
...Horses and horsemen played central roles in modern European warfare from the Renaissance to the Great War of 1914-1918, not only determining victory in battle, but also affecting the rise and fall of kingdoms and nations. When Shakespeare's Richard III cried, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom...
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Published: 16 August 2023
.... Herwig, H.   1996 . ‘ Clio Deceived: Patriotic Self-Censorship in Germany after the Great War ’. In Forging the Collective Memory , ed. K. Wilson , 87–126. Oxford: Berghahn. Hoffmann, S.   1977 . ‘ An American Social Science: International Relations ’. Daedalus...