Secondary Literature on the Age of First World War

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added select secondary literature on regions and themes the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • First World War (1914–18)
  • Russian Civil War (1917–22)
  • Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1919–23)

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Jones, Karen R., Giacomo Macola, and David Welch. A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
Jones, Adam. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. London: Routledge, 2006.
Jones, Heather. Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Kaes, Anton. Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Kaplan, Lawrence M. Pershing's Tankers: Personal Accounts of the AEF Tank Corps in World War I In AUSA book. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2018.
Kaskowitz, Sheryl. God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Kassimeris, George. The Barbarization of Warfare. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Katz, Katarina. Gender, Work, and Wages in the Soviet Union: A Legacy of Discrimination. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Kazin, Michael. War against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: A. Knopf , 1999.
Keene, Jennifer D. The United States and the First World War. New York: Longman, 2000.
Keith, Jeanette. Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Kelly, Barbara L. French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008.
Kennedy, Kathleen. Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens: Women and Subversion During World War I. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Kennedy, Thomas C. The Hound of Conscience: A History of the No-Conscription Fellowship, 1914-1919. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1981.
Kent, Susan Kingsley. Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Kent, Susan. Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Kershaw, Angela, and Angela Kimyongür. Women in Europe Between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.
van Ypersèle, Laurence. "Making the Great War Great: 1914-1918 War Memorials in Wallonia." In Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century, edited by William Kidd and Brian Murdoch, 26-40. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004.
Kidd, William, and Brian Murdoch. Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Kienitz, Sabine. Beschädigte Helden: Kriegsinvalidität und Körperbilder 1914-1923. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2008.
Kienitz, Sabine. "Body Damage: War Disability and Constructions of Masculinity in Weimar Germany." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 181-204. Oxford, UK; New York: Berg, 2002.
Kieran, David, and Edwin A. Martini. At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond In War culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Kieser, Hans-Lukas, Kerem Öktem, and Maurus Reinkowski. World War I and the End of the Ottoman World: From the Balkan Wars to the Armenian Genocide. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Killingray, David. "All the King’s Men? Blacks in the British Army in the First World War, 1914–1918." In Under the Imperial Carpet: Essays in Black History 1780–1950, edited by Rainer E. Lotz and Ian Pegg, 164-181. Crawley: Rabbit Press, 1986.
Kindsvatter, Peter. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Kingsbury, Celia Malone. For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
Knox, MacGregor, and Williamson Murray. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Kocher-Marboeuf, Éric, Frédéric Chauvaud, and Gilles Malandain. "Mata Hari : une femme nue devant la justice militaire." In Impossibles victimes, impossibles coupables: Les femmes devant la justice (XIXe-XXe siècles), 239-249. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009.
Kocka, Jürgen. Facing Total War: German Society, 1914-1918. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Koller, Christian. "Enemy Images Race and Gender Stereotypes in the Discussion on Colonial Troops: A Franco-German Comparison, 1914–1923." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 139-157. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Kon, Igor S. The Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Czars to Today. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
Kopytoff, Larissa. "French Citizens and Muslim Law: The Tensions of Citizenship in Early Twentieth Century." In The Meanings of Citizenship, edited by Richard Marback and Marc W. Kruman, 320-338. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2015.

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