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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Wilde, Terry. "Freshettes, Farmerettes, and Feminine Fortitude at the University of Toronto during the First World War." 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, 75-97. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012.
Willbanks, James H. America's Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Williams, Chad Louis. Torchbearers of Democracy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Willson, Perry. Gender, Family and Sexuality: The Private Sphere in Italy, 1860-1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Willson, Perry R. Women in Twentieth-Century Italy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Wiltsher, Anne. Most Dangerous Women: Feminist Peace Campaigners of the Great War. London: Pandora Press, 1985.
Winchell, Meghan K. "Women and World War in Comparative Perspective." In The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History, edited by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson, 595-616. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Wingate, Jennifer. Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America’s World War I Memorials In H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
Wingfield, Nancy M., and Maria Bucur-Deckard. Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Winter, Jay, and Jean-Louis Robert. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914–1919: A Cultural History. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Winter, Jay, and Jean-Louis Robert. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1918. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Winter, Jay. "Demography." In A Companion to the First World War, edited by John Horne, 248-262. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
The Cambridge History of the First World War, Edited by Jay Winter. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Wolfgram, Mark A. Antigone's Ghosts: The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2018.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. 5th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Wood, Elizabeth A. The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Woollacott, Angela. Gender and Empire (Monograph). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Woollacott, Angela. On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Woollacott, Angela. "Sisters and Brothers in Arms: Family, Class, and Gendering in World War I Britain." In Gendering War Talk, edited by Miariam G. Cooke and Angela Woollacott, 128-147. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Worobec, Christine D., Barbara Evans Clements, and Barbara Alpern Engel. Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
Wynn, Stephen, and Tanya Wynn. Women in the Great War (2017). Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Military, 2017.
Xu, Guoqi. Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Yavuz, M. Hakan, and Peter Sluglett. War and Diplomacy: The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2011.
Young, Allan. The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Zalfen, Sarah, and Sven Oliver Müller. Besatzungsmacht Musik: Zur Musik- und Emotionsgeschichte im Zeitalter der Weltkriege (1914-1949). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014.
Zegenhagen, Evelyn. "Schneidige deutsche Mädel": Fliegerinnen zwischen 1918 und 1945. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007.
Zeiger, Susan. In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Zeiler, Thomas William, David Ekbladh, and Benjamin C. Montoya. Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ziemann, Benjamin. Contested Commemorations: Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Ziemann, Benjamin. Gewalt im Ersten Weltkrieg: Töten - Überleben - Verweigern. Essen: Klartext, 2013.
Ziemann, Benjamin. War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1923. Oxford, UK: Berg, 2007.
Zuckerman, Larry. The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I. New York: New York University Press, 2004.
Zurcher, Erik Jan. "Ottoman Labour Battalions in World War I." In Der Völkermord an den Armeniern und die Shoah, edited by Hans-Lukas Kieser and Dominik J. Schaller, 187-196. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2002.

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