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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Sluga, Glenda. Internationalism in the Age of Internationalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Sluga, Glenda, and Patricia Clavin. Internationalisms: A Twentieth Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Sluga, Glenda. "National Sovereignty and Female Equality: Gender, Peacemaking, and the New World Orders of 1919 and 1945." In Frieden—Gewalt—Geschlecht: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung, edited by Karen Hagemann, Jennifer Davy and Ute Kätzel, 166-183. Essen: Klartext, 2005.
Smith, Richard. "'Heaven Grant You Strength to Fight the Battle for Your Race': Nationalism, Pan Africanism and the First World War in Jamaican Memory." In Race, Empire and First World War Writing, edited by Santanu Das, 265-282. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Smith, Richard. "'The Black Peril': Race, Masculinity and Migration During the First World War." In Gendering Migration: Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain, edited by Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster, 19-34. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.
Smith, Angela. British Women of the Eastern Front : War, Writing and Experience in Serbia and Russia, 1914-20. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Smith, Angela K. Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Smith, Leonard V., Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker. France and the Great War, 1914–1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Smith, Richard. Jamaican Volunteers and the Development of National Consciousness. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Smith, Angela, and Krista Cowman. Landscapes and Voices of the Great War. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Smith, Angela K. Suffrage Discourse in Britain During the First World War. London: Routledge, 2017.
Smith, Leonard V. The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Smith, Angela K. The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism and the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Smith, Angela K., and Sandra Barkhof. War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Smyth, James J. "Rents, Peace, Votes: Working-Class Women and Political Activity in the First World War." In Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945, edited by Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, 174-196. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
Sohn, Anne-Marie. "Between the Wars in France and England." In A History of Women in the West: Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century, edited by Françoise Thébaud, 92-119. Vol. 5. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Soloway, Richard A. Demography and Degeneration: Eugenics and the Declining Birthrate in Twentieth Century Britain. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.
Speck, Catherine. Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars. London: Reaktion Books, 2014.
Spilker, Rolf, and Bernd Ulrich. Der Tod als Maschinist: Der industrialisierte Krieg, 1914-1918. Ausstellungskatalog des Museums Industriekultur Osnabrück im Rahmen des Jubiläums "350 Jahre Westfälischer Friede," 17. Mai-23. August 1998 ed. Bramsche: Rasch, 1998.
Spont, Henry. La femme et la guerre. Paris: Perrin, 1916.
Stanley, Jo. A history of the Royal Navy : women and the Royal Navy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Stargardt, Nicholas. The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics, 1866–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Steinson, Barbara J. American Women’s Activism in World War I. New York: Garland Publishing, 1982.
Stewart, Victoria. Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Stites, Richard. The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Stoff, Laurie. Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War: More Than Binding Men's Wounds In Modern war studies; Variation: Modern war studies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Stoff, Laurie S. They Fought for the Motherland: Russia's Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Storey, Neil R. WRNS: The Women's Royal Naval Service. Oxford, UK: Bloomsbury Shire, 2017.
Storm, Eric, and Ali Al Tuma. Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914–1945: “Aliens in Uniform” in Wartime Societies. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Strachan, Hew. European Armies and the Conduct of War. London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983.
Strachan, Hew. The First World War: To Arms. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Strachan, Hew. The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Strachan, Hew. World War I: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Street, Kori. "Patriotic, Not Permanent: Attitudes about Women’s Making Bombs and Being Bankers." 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, 148-170. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
Sulkunen, Irma, Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi, and Pirjo Markkola. Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship: International Perspectives on Parliamentary Reforms. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Summerfield, Penny. "Twentieth-Century Women in Wartime." International History Review 19, no. 1 (Special Issue) (1997): 3-160.

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