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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Greenwald, Maurine. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Griffin, Roger. Fascism In Oxford Readers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Griffiths, Gareth. Women's Factory Work in World War I. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 1991.
Groot, Gerard J. de, and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird. A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
Grundlingh, Albert. Fighting Their Own War: South African Blacks and the First World War. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987.
Guieu, Jean-Michel. Le rameau et le glaive: Les militants français pour la Société des Nations. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2008.
Guiomar, Jean-Yves. L'invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Félin, 2004.
Gullace, Nicoletta. "The Blood of Our Sons:" Men, Women, and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship During the Great War. Basingstoke, UK; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Gullace, Nicoletta F. "Barbaric Anti-Modernism: Representations of the "Hun" in Britain, North America, Australia, and Beyond." In Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture, edited by Pearl James, 61-78. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Guttmann, Barbara. Weibliche Heimarmee: Frauen in Deutschland 1914-1918. Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag, 1989.
Habeck, Mary R., Geoffrey Parker, and Jay Winter. The Great War and the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Hacker, Barton C., and Margaret Vining. A Companion to Women's Military History. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Hacker, Carlotta. The Indomitable Lady Doctors. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1974.
Hafeneger, Benno, Michael Fritz, Peter Krahulec, Ralf Thaetner, and Michael Buddrus. Ein Lesebuch zur Kriegsbegeisterung junger Männer. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel.
Hagemann, Karen. ""German Women Help to Win!": Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 485-511. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Hagemann, Karen, and Jean H. Quataert. Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography. New York: Berghahn, 2008.
Hagemann, Karen, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege. Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus, 2002.
Hagemann, Karen. "Home/Front: The Military, Violence and Gender Relations in the Age of the World Wars." In Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 1-42. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2002.
Hagemann, Karen, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2002.
Hagemann, Karen. "Military, War, and the Mainstreams: Gendering Modern German Military History." In Gendering Modern German History: Themes, Debates, Revisions, edited by Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert, 63-85. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.
Hagemann, Karen. "National Symbols and the Politics of Memory: The Prussian Iron Cross of 1813: Its Cultural Context and Its Aftermath." In War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture, edited by Alan I. Forrest, Etienne François and Karen Hagemann, 215-244. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Hagemann, Karen, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hallett, Christine E. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
Hallett, Christine E. Nurse Writers of the Great War In Journal of Military History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Hämmerle, Christa. "'Mentally Broken, Physically a Wreck…': Violence in War Accounts of Nurses in Austro-Hungarian Service." In Gender and the First World War, edited by Christa Hämmerle, Oswald Uberegger and Birgitta Bader Zaar, 89-107. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Hämmerle, Christa. "Die k. (u.) k. Armee als 'Schule der Volkes'? Zur Geschichte der Allgemeinen Wehrpflicht in der multinationalen Habsburgermonarchie (1866 bis 1914/18)." In Der Bürger als Soldat: Die Militarisierung europäischer Gesellschaften im langen 19. Jahrhundert: Ein internationaler Vergleich, edited by Christian Jansen, 175-213. Essen: Klartext, 2004.
Hämmerle, Christa, Oswald Uberegger, and Birgitta Zaar. Gender and the First World War. Basingstoke, UK ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Hämmerle, Christa. "Gendered Narratives of the First World War: The Example of the Former Austria." In Narrating War: XVIth–XXth Century Perspectives, edited by Marco Mondini and Massimo Rospocher, 173-187. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2013.
Hämmerle, Christa. Heimat/Front: Geschlechtergeschichte(n) des Ersten Weltkriegs in Österreich-Ungarn. Wien ; Köln ; Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2014.
Hammond, Michael, and Michael Williams. British Silent Cinema and The Great War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Hanna, Martha. The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers during the Great War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Hanna, Martha. Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Hanson, Edward. The Wandering Princess: Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951). Gloucestershire: Fonthill Media, 2017.
Hardy, Michel Serge. De la morale au moral des troupes ou l'histoire des B.M.C. 1918-2004. Panazol, France: Lavauzelle, 2004.
Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hartmann, Anja, and Heuser, Beatrice. War, Peace, and World Orders in European History. London: Routledge, 2001.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Hauch, Gabriella. Frauen bewegen Politik: Österreich 1848-1938. Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2009.
Hausen, Karin. "The German Nation’s Obligation to the Heroes’ Widows of World War I." In Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jenson, Jane, Sonya Michel and Weitz, Margaret Collins, 126-140. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press, 1987.

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