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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Rivière, Antoine. ""Special Decisions": Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed Over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914–18)." In Rape in Wartime, edited by Raphaëlle Branche and Fabrice Virgili, 184-200. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Robb, George. British Culture and the First World War. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Robenalt, James David. The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage during the Great War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Robert, Jean-Louis. "Women and Work in France during the First World War." In The Upheaval of War: Family, Work, and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918, edited by Wall, Richard and Jay M. Winter, 251-266. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Roberts, Barbara. "Why do Women do Nothing to End the War?" Canadian Feminist-Pacifists and the Great War In Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women Overview. Ottawa: Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), 1985.
Roberts, Mary Louise. Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Roberts, Hannah. The WRNS in Wartime: The Women's Royal Naval Service 1917-45. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Robinson, Paul. Military Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Rodriguez-Ruiz, Blanca, and Ruth Rubio-Marín. The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe: Voting to Become Citizens. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Rogers, Anna. While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
Rohrkrämer, Thomas. "Heroes and Would-be Heroes: Veterans’ and Reservists’ Associations in Imperial Germany." In Anticipating Total War: the German and American Experiences, 1871-1914, edited by Manfred E. Boemeke, Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, 496. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Roper, Michael. "Maternal Relations: Moral Manliness and Emotional Survival in Letters Home during the First World War." In Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, edited by Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann and John Tosh, 295-315. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Roper, Michael. The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. Manchester, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Roseman, Mark. Generations in Conflict: Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany, 1770-1968. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Rosenbusch, Ute. Der Weg zum Frauenwahlrecht in Deutschland In Schriften zur Gleichstellung der Frau. - Baden-Baden : Nomos, 1996-2011. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018.
Roshwald, Aviel, and Richard Stites. European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Ross, William G. World War I and the American Constitution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Rouquet, Francois, Fabrice Virgili, and Daniele Voldmann. Amours, guerres et sexualité: 1914–1945. Paris: Edition Gallimard, 2007.
Roy, Kaushik, and Gavin Rand. Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia In Routledge.com. Delhi, India: Routledge India, 2017.
Rozenblit, Marsha L. "For the Fatherland and Jewish People: Jewish Women in Austria During World War I." In Authority, Identity, and the Social History of the Great War, edited by Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee, 199-222. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995.
Rubin, Richard, and many others. World War I Remembered. Fort Washington, PA: Eastern National, 2017.
Russell, Lynette. Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
Ruthchild, Rochelle Goldberg. Equality & Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 In Pitt series in Russian and East European studies; Variation: Series in Russian and East European studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
Rutherdale, Robert Allen. Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada's Great War. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004.
Rutherford, Jonathan. Forever England: Reflections on Masculinity and Empire. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1997.
Ryan, Louise, and Margaret Ward. Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women, and Wicked Hags. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2004.
Sala, Massimiliano. Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
Sanborn, Joshua A. Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905–1925. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003.
Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Sauerteig, Lutz D. H., and Roger Cooter. "Sex, Medicine, and Morality during the First World War." In War, Medicine and Modernity, 167-188. Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton, 1998.
Saunders, Edward E., and Diane Carlson Evans. Knapsacks and Roses: Montana's Women Veterans of World War I. Laurel, MT: E.E. Saunders, 2018.
Scates, Bruce, and Raelene Frances. Women and the Great War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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