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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Moss, Mark. Manliness and Militarism: Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Mosse, George L. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Mosse, George. Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe. Madison, WI: University of Madison Press, 1985.
Mosse, George L. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Moyd, Michelle R. "'We Don’t Want to Die for Nothing': Askari at War in German East Africa, 1914-1918." In Race, Empire and First World War Writing, edited by Santanu Das, 90-107. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Mullen, John. Popular Song in the First World War: An International Perspective In Ashgate popular and folk music series. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019.
Myers, Charles S. Shell Shock in France, 1914-1918: Based on a War Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940.
Myers, Ramon H., and Mark R. Peattie. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Nagler, Jörg. "Victims of the Home Front: Enemy Aliens in the United States During the First World War." In Minorities in Wartime: National and Racial Groupings in Europe, North America, and Australia During the Two World Wars, edited by Panikos Panayi, 191-215. Oxford, UK: Berg, 1993.
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Naranch, Bradley, and Geoff Eley. German Colonialism in a Global Age. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
Neiberg, Michael S. Fighting the Great War: A Global History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Nelson, Robert L. "German Comrades - Slavic Whores: Gender Images in the German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 69-86. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Nelson, Robert L. German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Nelson, Amy. Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Dancing with de Beauvoir: Jazz and the French. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004.
Neuhaus, Susan J., and Sharon Mascall-Dare. Not for Glory: A Centenary of Service by Medical Women to the Australian Army and Its Allies. Salisburg, Australia: Boolarong Press, 2014.
Nicholson, Gerald W. L. Canada's Nursing Sisters. Toronto: S. Stevens, 1975.
Nicholson, Virginia. Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Noakes, Lucy. War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939-91. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998.
Noakes, Lucy. Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Noonan, Norma C., and Carol Nechemias. Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Norman, Allison. ""In Defense of the Empire": The Six Nations of the Grand River and the Great War." 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, 29-50. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
Nussbaum, Arthur. A Concise History of the Law of Nations. New York: MacMillan, 1947.
Obinger, Herbert, Klaus Petersen, and Peter Starke. Warfare and Welfare: Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Offen, Karen. European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Olusoga, David. The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire. London: Head of Zeus, 2014.
Omissi, David. The Sepoy and The Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
Oram, Gerard. Military Executions during World War I. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Orr, Andrew. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Ortega, Marie-Linda, and Sylvie Turc-Zinopoulos. De la Violencia y de las Mujeres: España, 1808-1918. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, DL, 2017.

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