New Perspectives on the First World War

<p>1.All Quiet on Every Front: Fighting the Great War Beyond No Man’s Land.- Part I The Global War.- 2.World War I in East Asia: Transnational Aspects of the Qingdao Campaign (August 23–November 7, 1914).- 3.West Indian Soldiers and the Mediated, Imagined Landscapes of the First World War.- 4.Great Britain’s World War I Naval Blockade of Germany: International Law Versus the Trident of Neptune.- Part II Cultures of War.- 5.Of Rats and Men: The Decisive Role of Rodents on the Western Front.- 6.Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War.- 7.Deconstructing Rudolf Berthold: The Brittle, Violent Life of Germany’s “Iron” Aviator.- Part III Between the Home Front and the Front Lines.- 8.Dinner in the Trenches: Army Rations, Rolling Kitchens, and the Logistics of Food for American Doughboys.- 9.War and Welfare: Separation Allowances in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States.- 10.Unionism in Defeat: The Unravelling of a World War I Compact in Texas Rail Towns.- Part IV Gender and War.- 11.Blurring the Line and Walking the Street: The Elision of Visual Distinctions Between Prostitutes and New Women in Otto Dix’s Three Prostitutes on the Street (Drei Dirnen auf der Straße) .- 12.“Eminently appalling suffering”: Irish Women in World War I Medical Services, Citizenship, and Remembrance in the Irish Free State During the 1920s.- 13.The “Barefoot War”: How World War I and British Law Disrupted Gender Structures in Mandate Palestine.</p>