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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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. London: Croom Helm, 1977.
Mason, Ursula Stuart. Britannia's Daughters: The Story of the WRNS. London: Leo Cooper, 1992.
Matthew, Kay Morris. Recovery: Women's Overseas Service in World War I. Gisborne: Tairawhiti Museum, 2017.
Mawdsley, Evan. The Russian Civil War. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987.
Mayhew, Emily. Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
McCarter, Jeremy. Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals. New York: Random House, 2017.
McDermid, Jane, and Anna Hillyar. Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1999.
McDermid, Jane, and Anna Hillyar. Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930: A Study in Continuity through Change In Women and men in history; Variation: Women and men in history. London: Longman, 1998.
McIntosh, Gillian, and Diane Urquhart. Irish Women at War: The Twentieth Century. Dublin, Ireland; Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2010.
McKenzie, Andrea, and Jane Ledwell. L.M. Montgomery and War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
McLaren, Eva Shaw. A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.
McLaughlin, Redmond. The Royal Army Medical Corps. London: L. Cooper, 1972.
Melman, Billie. Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace, 1870-1930. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Melman, Billie. "Re-Generation: Nation and the Constuction of Gender in Peace and War - Palestine Jews, 1900-1918." In Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace, 1870-1930, edited by Billie Melman, 121-140. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Melzer, Annabelle. "Spectacles and Sexualities: The 'Mise-en-Scène' of the 'Tirailleur Senegalais' on the Western Front, 1914-1920." In Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930, edited by Billie Melman, 213-244. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Merridale, Catherine. Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth Century Russia. New York: Viking, 2001.
Messinger, Gary S. British Propaganda and the State During the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
Metcalf, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalf. A Concise History of Modern India. 3rd ed. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Metinsoy, Elif Mahir. Ottoman Women during World War I: Everyday Experiences, Politics, and Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Metzger, Barbara. "Towards an International Human Rights Regime during the Inter-War Years: The League of Nations’ Combat of Traffic in Women and Children." In Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1880–1950, edited by Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann, 54-79. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Meyer, Jessica. Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Meyer, Alfred G. "The Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives." In Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation, edited by Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel and Christine D. Worobec, 208-224. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
Milcoy, Katharine. When the Girls Come Out to Play: Teenage Working-Class Girls' Leisure between the Wars. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017.
Mills, H. Sinclair. The Vivandiere: History, Tradition, Uniform and Service. Collinswood, NJ: C. W. Historicals, 1988.
Mitchell, David J. Monstrous Regiment: The Story of the Women of the First World War. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Mitchell, Katharine, and Helena Sanson. Women and Gender in Post-Unification Italy: Between Private and Public Spheres. Bern: Lang, 2013.
Mjøset, Lars, and Stephen Van Holde. The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces. Amsterdam: JAI, 2002.
Mojzes, Paul. Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century In Studies in genocide : religion, history, and human rights; Variation: Studies in genocide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
Monahan, Evelyn, and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. A Few Good Women: America's military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Monnickendam, Andrew, and Aránzazu Usandizaga. Dressing Up For War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2017.
Morelon, Claire. "The Urban-Rural Antagonism in Prague during the First World War in a Comparative Perspective." In Frontwechsel: Österreich-Ungarns “Großer Krieg” im Vergleich, edited by Wolfram Dornik, Julia Walleczek and Stefan Wedrac, 325-344. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014.
Morin-Rotureau, Evelyne. Combats de femmes, 1914-1918 : les Françaises, pilier de l'effort de guerre. Paris: Editions Autrement, 2014.
Morrow, John H. The Great War: An Imperial History. London: Routledge, 2004.
Morton, Desmond. Fight or Pay: Soldiers Families in the Great War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004.
Morton, Desmond. "Supporting Soldiers’ Wives and Families in the Great War: What Was Transformed?" In A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War, edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw, 195-218. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.

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