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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Summerskill, Michael. China on the Western Front: Britain's Chinese Work Force in the First World War. London: Michael Summerskill, 1982.
Suny, Ronald Grigor, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman M. Naimark. A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Swanwick, Helena. Builders of Peace: Being Ten Years' History of the Union of Democratic Control. London: Swathmore Press, 1924.
Sweeney, Regina M. Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music During the Great War. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
Swettenham, John. Canada and the First World War. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969.
Szapor, Judith. Hungarian Women's Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018.
Szczepaniak, Monika. "The Country House as a Transitory Locus for Soldiers in Polish Literature on the First World War." In Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, edited by Simone Derix and Margareth Lanzinger, 72-87. Vol. Band 18: Housing Capital: Resource and Representation. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017.
Tanielian, Melanie S. The Charity of War: Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and World War I in the Middle East. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.
Taylor, Philip. Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Thébaud, Françoise. Les femmes au temps de la guerre de 14. Paris: Éditions Payot & Rivages, 2014.
Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
Thiele, Martina, Tanja Thomas, and Fabian Virchow. Medien – Krieg – Geschlecht: Affirmationen und Irritationen sozialer Ordnungen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.
Thom, Deborah. "Making Spectaculars: Museums and How We Remember Gender in Wartime." In Evidence, History and the Great War, edited by Gail Braybon, 48-66. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
Thom, Deborah. Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998.
Thomas, Gill. Life on All Fronts: Women in the First World War In Women in history; Variation: Women in history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Thomas, Christophe. Women in the Great War (2019) In Collection 1914-1918. Bayeux: OREP éditions, 2019.
Thompson, John A. A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Thompson, Elizabeth. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Thompson, Mark. The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
Tickner, J. Ann. Gender in International Relations: Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Todd, Lisa M. Sexual Treason in Germany during the First World War In Genders and Sexualities in History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Tomassini, Luigi. "The Home Front in Italy." In Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced, edited by Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle, 577-595. London: Cooper, 1996.
Tombs, Robert, and Isabelle Tombs. That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present. London: William Heinemann, 2006.
Tonchu, Elena. Zhenshchina i voina. Moscow: TONChU, 2009.
Tosh, John. "What Should Historians Do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth-Century Britain." In Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays on Gender, Family and Empire, edited by John Tosh, 179-202. Harlow: Routledge, 2004.
Townsend, Charles. The Oxford History of Modern War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Treadwell, Mattie E. The Women's Army Corps. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1953.
Ugolini, Laura. Civvies: Middle-Class Men on the English Home Front, 1914-18. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.
Ulbrich, David J., and Bobby A. Wintermute. Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018.
Ulrich, Bernd, and Benjamin Ziemann. German Soldiers in the Great War: Letters and Eyewitness Accounts. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books, 2010.
Ulrich, Bernd, and Benjamin Ziemann. Krieg im Frieden: Die umkämpfte Erinnerung an den Ersten Weltkrieg, Quellen und Dokumente. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997.
Universiteit Leiden. Leiden University Libraries: Digital Collections. Leiden.

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