Of Little Comfort : : War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War / / Erika Kuhlman.
During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europe’s cities were a constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale. But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war’s fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses in how...
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Kuhlman, Erika, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Of Little Comfort : War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War / Erika Kuhlman. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 An Army of Widows -- 2 Trostlose Stunden -- 3 The War Widows’ Romance -- 4 The Transnationalization of Soldiers, Widows, and War Relief -- 5 “The Other Trench” -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europe’s cities were a constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale. But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war’s fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses in how nations crafted their identities in the interwar era. In this extremely original study, Erika Kuhlman compares the ways in which German and American widows experienced their postwar status, and how that played into the cultures of mourning in their two nations: one defeated, the other victorious. Each nation used widows and war dead as symbols to either uphold their victory or disengage from their defeat, but Kuhlman, parsing both German and U.S. primary sources, compares widows’ lived experiences to public memory. For some widows, government compensation in the form of military-style awards sufficed. For others, their own deprivations, combined with those suffered by widows living in other nations, became the touchstone of a transnational awareness of the absurdity of war and the need to prevent it. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Nationalism History 20th century. Transnationalism History 20th century. War widows Government policy Germany History 20th century. War widows Government policy United States History 20th century. War widows Government policy Western countries History 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects Germany. World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects United States. World War, 1914-1918 Women. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814748398 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814748398.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814749050 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814749050/original |
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