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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Ballard, Jack Stokes. The Shock of Peace: Military and Economic Demobilization after World War II. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983.
Banerjee, Argha. Women's Poetry and the First World War (1914-1918) In Gender & History. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2014.
Baranowski, Shelley. Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bard, Christine. Les filles de Marianne: histoire des féminismes 1914-1940. Paris: Fayard, 1995.
Barham, Peter. Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Bariéty, Jacques, and Antoine Fleury. Mouvements et initiatives de paix dans la politique internationale, 1867–1928. Bern: Peter Lang, 1987.
Barros, Andrew, and Martin Thomas. The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil-Military Divide, 1914-2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Barthou, Louis. L'Effort de La Femme Franc̦aise In Sur Les Routes du Droit . Paris; Barcelona: Bloud & Gay, 1917.
Bartoloni, Stefania. Donne di fronte alla guerra : Pace, diritti e democrazia (1878-1918). Bari, Italy: Editori Laterza, 2017.
Bartov, Omer. Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Bartov, Omer, and Eric Weitz. Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Bean, Dalea. Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Beattie, Peter M. The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
Becker, Annette. "Captive Civilians." In The Cambridge History of the First World War, edited by Jay Winter, 257-282. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Becker, Annette. "Life in an Occupied Zone: Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing." In Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced, edited by Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle, 630-641. London: Cooper, 1996.
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. London ; Boston: Pandora Press, 1989.
Belzer, Allison Scardino. Women and the Great War: Femininity Under Fire in Italy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Benjamin, Thomas. Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007.
Berghahn, Volker. Der Stahlhelm: Bund der Frontsoldaten 1918-1935. Düsseldorf: Droste, 1966.
Berghahn, V. R. Germany and the Approach of War in 1914. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1993.
Berghahn, Volker Rolf. Militarismus: Die Geschichte einer internationalen Debatte. Hamburg: Berg, 1986.
Berkin, Carol R., and Clara Maria Lovett. Women, War, and Revolution. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980.
Berkman, Joyce. "Feminism, War, and Peace Politics:The Case of World War I." In Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory, edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain and Sheila Tobias, 141-160. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield , 1990.
Bessel, Richard. Germany after the First World War. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Bessel, Richard. "Mobilization and Demobilization in Germany, 1916-1919." In State, Society, and Mobilization in Europe During the First World War, edited by John Horne, 212-222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Best, Geoffrey Francis. Humanity in Warfare: The Modern History of the International Law of Armed Conflicts. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980.
Bet-El, Ilana R. "Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity, and the Great War." In Borderlines: Genders & Identities in War & Peace, 1870-1930, edited by Billie Melman, 73-94. London: Routledge, 1998.
Bette, Peggy. Veuves françaises de la Grande Guerre: Itinéraires et combats. Brussels: P.I.E Peter Lang, 2017.
Bielby, Clare, and Anna Richards. Women and Death: Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500. Vol. 3. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010.
Black, Jeremy. European Warfare, 1815-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Black, Jeremy. The Age of Total War, 1860–1945. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
Black, Jeremy. The Cold War: A Military History (Black 2015). London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Black, Jeremy. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Bland, Lucy. "In the Name of Protection: The Policing of Women in the First World War." In Women-in-Law: Explorations in Law, Family, and Sexuality, edited by Julia Brophy and Carol Smart, 23-49. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Blom, Ida, and Sølvi Sogner. Med kjønnsperspektiv på norsk historie: fra vikingtid til 2000-årsskiftet. Oslo, Norway: Cappelen akademisk forlag, 1999.
Bloxham, Donald, and Robert Gerwarth. Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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