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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Os, Nicole A. N. M. van. Feminism, Philanthropy & Patriotism: Female Associational Life in the Ottoman Empire. Leiden: Universiteit Leiden: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, 2013.
Osório, Ana de Castro, and Fátima de Castro. En temps de guerre : aux soldats et aux femmes de mon pays, Portugal, 1914-1918 In Mondes lusophones. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. "Women and Pacifism in Ireland, 1915-1932." In Women and Irish History: Essays in Honour of Margaret MacCurtain, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1997.
Paddock, Troy R. E. A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
Paddock, Troy R. E. World War I and Propaganda. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Page, Melvin. The Chiwaya War: Malawians In The First World War. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.
Paice, Edward. Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Southern History across the Color Line. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Paletscheck, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. "Introduction: Gender and Memory Culture in Europe: Female Representations in Historical Perspective." In The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century-Europe, edited by Sylvia Paletscheck and Sylvia Schraut, 7-30. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008.
Paletschek, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2008.
Palmer, Svetlana, and Sarah Wallis. Intimate Voices from the First World War. New York: W. Morrow, 2003.
Palmié, Stephan, and Francisco A. Scarano. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Paoletti, Ciro. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Paret, Peter, Beth Irwin Lewis, and Paul Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Cambridge History of Warfare. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Pati, Budheswar. India and the First World War. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 1996.
Pattinson, Juliette. Women of War: Gender, Modernity and the First Aid Yeomanry. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2020.
Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Pedersen, Susan. The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pedroncini, Guy. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1871 à 1940, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 3. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Peet, Jessica L., and Laura Sjoberg. Gender and Civilian Victimization in War. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Penslar, Derek J. Jews and the Military: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Perry, Heather R. Recycling the Disabled: Army, Medicine, and Modernity in WWI Germany. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.
Perry, F. W. The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organisation in Two World Wars. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.
Petrone, Karen. "Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian War Posters of the First World War." In Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930, edited by Billie Melman, 95-120. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Petrone, Karen. The Great War in Russian Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
Phillips, Kathy J. Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Philo-Gill, Samantha. The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France, 1917-1921: Women Urgently Wanted. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword History, 2017.
Pick, Daniel. War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
Pierson, Ruth Roach, and Nupur Chaudhuri. Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Pierson, Ruth Roach. Women and Peace: Theoretical, Historical and Practical Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2020.
Piggott, Juliet. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. London: Cooper, 1975.

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