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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Poirrier, Philippe. La Grande guerre: une histoire culturelle. Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2015.
Pollard, Lisa. Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
Powell, Anne. Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World War. New York: History Press, 2013.
Prelinger, Elizabeth, and Barton C. Hacker. ""The Spirit of Woman Power": Representation of Women in World War I Posters." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 453-484. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Presley, Cora Ann. Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Proctor, Tammy M. Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
Proctor, Tammy M. Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York: New York University, 2003.
Prost, Antoine. Les anciens combattants et la société française, 1914-1939. Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1977.
Prusin, Alexander V. The Lands Between: Conflict in the East European Borderlands, 1870-1992. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Pugliese, Stanislao G. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Pugsley, Christopher. Scars on the Heart: Two Centuries of New Zealand at War. Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman in association with Auckland Museum, 1996.
Pugsley, Christopher. The ANZAC Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War. Auckland : Reed Publishing, 2004.
Quataert, Jean H. "Gendered Medical Services in Red Cross Field Hospitals during the First Balkan War and World War I." In Peace, War, and Gender from Antiquity to the Present: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Jost Düffler and Robert Frank, 219-233. Essen: Klartext, 2009.
Quataert, Jean H. Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Quataert, Jean H. "War-Making and Restraint by Law: The Formative Years, 1864-1914." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 142-162. Vol. 4: War in the Modern World, 1850–2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Quesada, Alejandro M. de, and Chris Dale. Imperial German Colonial and Overseas Troops 1885-1918. Long Island City, NY: Osprey, 2013.
Quigley, Paul, and James Hawdon. Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Quinkert, Babette, Philipp Rauh, and Ulrike Winkler. Krieg und Psychiatrie 1914 - 1950 In Krieg und Psychiatrie, 1914–1950. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010.
Rachamimov, Iris. "Small Escapes: Gender, Class, and Material Culture in Great War Internment Camps." In Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement, edited by Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra, 166-188. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.
Rauchensteiner, Manfried. Der Tod des Doppeladlers: Österreich-Ungarn und der Erste Weltkrieg. Graz: Styria Verlag, 1993.
Rawls, Walton. Wake up, America!: World War I and the American Poster. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988.
Read, Daphne. The Great War and Canadian Society: An Oral History. Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1978.
Rehding, Alexander. Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Reigel, Corey W. The Last Great Safari: East Africa in World War I. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 2015.
Rettig, Tobias, and Karl Hack. Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011.
Reus, Teresa Gómez. "Racing to the Front: Auto-Mobility and Competing Narratives of Women in the First World War." In Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces, 107-122. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Reynolds, David. The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Reznick, Jeffrey. Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Das Deutsche Rote Kreuz: Eine Geschichte 1864–1990. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2002.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Für Humanität in Krieg und Frieden: Das Internationale Rote Kreuz, 1863-1977. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992.

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