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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Clements, Barbara Evans, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave, 2002.
Coetzee, Frans, and Marilyn Shevin Coetzee. Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995.
Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Cohen, Deborah. The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
Cohler, Deborah. Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Cole, Laurence, Christa Hämmerle, and Martin Scheutz. Glanz—Gewalt—Gehorsam: Militär und Gesellschaft in der Habsburgermonarchie (1800 bis 1918). Essen: Klartext, 2011.
Cole, Sarah. Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Confino, Alon, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann. Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany In Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.
Confino, Alon. The Nation as a Local Metaphor: Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Confino, Alon, and Peter Fritzsche. The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society In The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society. Urbana Chmpaign: University of Illinois Press , 2002.
Conklin, Alice. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Conklin, Alice L., and Ian Christopher Fletcher. European Imperialism, 1830-1930: Climax and Contradiction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Conley, Mary A. From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
Connelly, Mark, and David Welch. War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
Conrad, Sebastian. German Colonialism: A Short History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Cooke, Miriam, and Angela Woollacott. Gendering War Talk. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Copeland, Jeffrey C., and Xu, Yan. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
Cork, Richard, and Barbican Art Gallery. A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Barbican Art Gallery, 1994.
Cortright, David. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Crépin, Annie. Défendre la France: Les Français, la guerre et le service militaire, de la guerre de sept ans à Verdun. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005.
Crespo, Pedro Ochoa. Sofía Casanova: Género y Espacio Público en la Gran Guerra In (Theoria cum praxi. Studia ; 12). México: Plaza y Valdés, 2017.
Crofton, Eileen. Angels of Mercy: Nurses on the Western Front 1914-1918. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2013.
Crofton, Eileen. The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1997.
Crook, Tom, Rebecca Gill, and Bertrand Traithe. Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, c. 1830-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Crouthamel, Jason. The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2009.
Culleton, Claire. Working Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Cundall, Frank. Jamaica’s Part in the Great War 1914-1918. London: West India Committee, 1925.
Damousi, Joy, and Marilyn Lake. Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Damousi, Joy. The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory, and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Daniel, Ute. "Women's Work in Industry and Family: Germany, 1914-18." In The Upheaval of War: Family, Work, and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918, edited by Wall, Richard and J.M. Winter, 267-296. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Daniels, Gordon, and Hiroko Tomida. Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 1868-1945. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2005.
Darracott, Joseph. The First World War in Posters, from the Imperial War Museum, London. New York: Dover Publications, 1974.
Darrow, Margaret. French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front. Oxford, UK; New York: Berg, 2000.
Das, Santanu. Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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