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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Dundas, Barbara. A History of Women in the Canadian Military. Montreal: Art Global, 2000.
Dunn, Seamus, and T.G. Fraser. Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict. London: Routledge, 1996.
Dunnage, Jonathan. Twentieth-Century Italy: A Social History. London: Longman, 2002.
Duppler, Jörg, and Gerhard Paul Gross. Kriegsende 1918: Ereignis, Wirkung, Nachwirkung. Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1999.
Durham, Martin. Women and Fascism. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Dzikowska, Elżbieta, Agata Handley, and Piotr Zawilski. Beyond the Trenches: The Social and Cultural Impact of the Great War. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2017.
Early, Frances. A World Without War: How U.S. Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.
Ebbert, Jean, and Marie-Beth Hall. Crossed Currents: Navy Women from World War I to Tailhook. Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 1993.
Ebbert, Jean, and Marie-Beth Hall. The First, the Few, the Forgotten: Navy and Marine Corps Women in World War I. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002.
Edgerton, Robert B. Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.
Edmondson, Linda Harriet. Gender in Russian History and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2001.
Edy, Carolyn M. The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S Military, and the Press, 1846-1947. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.
Eichenberg, Julia, and John Paul Newman. The Great War and Veterans' Internationalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Eifler, Christine, and Ruth Seifert. Soziale Konstruktionen: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnis. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1999.
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2012.
Eley, Geoff. Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Eley, Geoff. Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, and Sheila Tobias. Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.
Englund, Peter. The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Enloe, Cynthia. The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
Evangelista, Matthew. Gender, Nationalism and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Evans, Martin, and Ken Lunn. War and Memory in the Twentieth century In War and Memory in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Berg, 1997.
Fahrmeir, Andreas. Citizenship: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Concept. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
Fara, Patricia. A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Farnsworth, Beatrice, and Lynne Viola. Russian Peasant Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Fast, Susan, and Kip Pegley. Music, Politics, and Violence. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012.
Feldman, Gerald. Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany, 1914-1918. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.
Fell, Alison S., and Christine E. Hallett. First World War Nursing: New Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Fell, Alison S. "Nursing the Other: The Representation of Colonial Troops in French and British First World War Nursing Memoirs." In Race, Empire, and First World War Writing, edited by Santanu Das, 158-174. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Fell, Alison, and Ingrid Sharp. The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Fell, Alison S. Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Feltman, Brian K. The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Firme, Annemarie, and Ramona Hocker. Von Schlachthymnen und Protestsongs: Zur Kulturgeschichte des Verhältnisses von Musik und Krieg. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006.
Fischer-Galați, Stephen A., and Béla K. Király. Essays on War and Society in East Central Europe, 1740-1920. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 1988.
Fisher, Jane Elizabeth. Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War: Women's Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Flynn, George Q. Conscription and Democracy: The Draft in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Fogarty, Richard. Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

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