Evidence, History and the Great War : : Historians and the Impact of 1914-18 / / ed. by Gail Braybon.

• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Keith,; Braybon, Gail,; Gatrell, Peter,; Grayzel, Susan,; Gregory, Adrian,; McMillan, James,; Moriarty, Catherine,; Ortaggi, Simonetta,; Stryker, Laurinda,; Thom, Deborah,
• HerausgeberIn: Braybon, Gail,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Note on Terminology --; Introduction --; 1 ‘Though in a Picture Only’ Portrait Photography and the Commemoration of the First World War --; 2 Making Spectaculars Museums and how we remember Gender in Wartime --; 3 British ‘War Enthusiasm’ in 1914 a Reassessment --; 4 Winners or Losers Women’s Symbolic Role in the War Story --; 5 Liberating Women? Examining Gender, Morality and Sexuality in First World War Britain and France --; 6 The Great War and Gender Relations the Case of French Women and the First World War Revisited --; 7 Mental Cases British Shellshock and the Politics of Interpretation --; 8 Food and the German Home Front Evidence from Berlin --; 9 The Epic and the Domestic: Women and War in Russia, 1914–1917 --; 10 Italian Women During the Great War --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782381839
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782381839
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Gail Braybon.

In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'common knowledge' about the war and its aftermath has included myth, simplification and generalisation, this has often been accepted uncritically by popular and academic writers alike. While Britain may have suffered a surfeit of war books, many telling much the same story, there is far less written about the impact of the Great War in other combatant nations. Its history was long suppressed in both fascist Italy and the communist Soviet Union: only recently have historians of Russia begun to examine a conflict which killed, maimed and displaced so many millions. Even in France and Germany the experience of 1914-18 has often been overshadowed by the Second World War. The war's social history is now ripe for reassessment and revision. The essays in this volume incorporate a European perspective, engage with the historiography of the war, and consider how the primary textural, oral and pictorial evidence has been used - or abused. Subjects include the politics of shellshock, the impact of war on women, the plight of refugees, food distribution in Berlin and portrait photography, all of which illuminate key debates in war history.