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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Hong, Young-Sun. "World War I and the German Welfare State: Gender, Religion, and the Paradoxes of Modernity." In Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930, edited by Geoff Eley, 345-369. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Horne, John. A Companion to the First World War. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Horne, John. "Defeat and Memory in Modern History." In Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era, edited by Jenny Macleod, 11-29. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Horne, John, and Alan Kramer. German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Horne, John. State, Society, and Mobilization in Europe During the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Horsbrugh-Porter, Anna. Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember. London: Routledge, 1993.
Hovannisian, Richard G. Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide In Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998.
Howe, Glenford. Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2002.
Hsia, Ke-Chin. War, Welfare, and Social Citizenship: The Politics of War Victim Welfare in Austria, 1914-1925 In Department of History. Vol. Ph.D. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2013.
Huber, Michel. La population de la France pendant la guerre. Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 1931.
Huebner, Andrew J. "Gee! I Wish I Were a Man: Gender and the Great War." In The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military, edited by Kara Dixon Vuic, 68-86. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Hughes, Steven C. Politics of the Sword: Dueling, Honor, and Masculinity in Modern Italy. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Hull, Isabel V. A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law During the Great War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Hull, Isabel V. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Hüppauf, Bernd. War, Violence and the Modern Condition. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1997.
Huss, Marie-Monique. "Pronatalism and the Popular Ideology of the Child in Wartime France: the Evidence of the Picture Postcard." In The Upheaval of War: Work and Welfare in Europe, edited by Wall, Richard and Jay Winter, 329-368. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf and War: Fiction, Reality, and Myth In Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution; Variation: Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
Hutchinson, John F. Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross. Ithaca, New York: Ithaca Cornell University Press , 2013.
Huybrechts, Dominique. 1914–1918, Les musiciens dans la tourmente: Compositeurs et instrumentistes face à la Grande Guerre. Mont-de-L’Enclus, Belgium: Scaldis, 1999.
Hynes, Samuel. A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture. London: Bodley Head, 1990.
Ilic, Melanie. The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Ilic, Melanie. Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From 'Protection' to 'Equality'. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
Imperial War Museums. Imperial War Museums. London.
Inglis, K.S. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. Carlton, Australia: Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1998.
Irwin, Julia F. Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Jahn, Hubertus. Patriotic Culture in Russia during World War I. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Jahr, Christoph. Gewöhnliche Soldaten: Desertion und Deserteure im deutschen und britischen Heer 1914-1918. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998.
James, Pearl. "Images of Femininity in American World War I Posters." In Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture, edited by Pearl James, 273-311. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
James, Pearl. Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Janda, Kenneth. The Emperor and the Peasant: Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2018.
Jarausch, Konrad H. Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Jarboe, Andrew Tait, and Richard Fogarty. Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict. London: I. B. Tauris, 2014.
Jardin, Étienne. Music and War in Europe: From French Revolution to WWI. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2016.
Jaun, Rudolf. "Militär, Krieg und Geschlecht: Europäische Entwicklungslinien und schweizerische Besonderheiten." In Armee, Staat und Geschlecht: Die Schweiz im internationalen Vergleich 1918–1945, edited by Christof Dejung and Regula Stämpfli, 83-97. Zürich: Chronos, 2003.
Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Jensen, Kimberly. "Physicians and Citizens: US Medical Women and Military Service in the First World War." In War, Medicine and Modernity, edited by Roger Cooter, Mark Harrison and Steve Sturdy. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1998.
Jensen, Kimberly. "Volunteers, Auxiliaries, and Women's Mobilization: The First World War and Beyond (1914-1939)." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 189-231. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.

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