New Perspectives on the First World War

Chapter 1 All Quiet on Every Front: Fighting the Great War Beyond No Man’s Land

Chapter 2 World War I in East Asia: Transnational Aspects of the Qingdao Campaign (August 23–November 7, 1914)

Chapter 3 West Indian Soldiers and the Mediated, Imagined Landscapes of the First World War

Chapter 4 Great Britain’s World War I Naval Blockade of Germany: International Law Versus the Trident of Neptune

Chapter 5 Of Rats and Men: The Decisive Role of Rodents on the Western Front

Chapter 6 Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War

Chapter 7 Deconstructing Rudolf Berthold: The Brittle, Violent Life of Germany’s “Iron” Aviator

Chapter 8 Dinner in the Trenches: Army Rations, Rolling Kitchens, and the Logistics of Food for American Doughboys

Chapter 9 War and Welfare: Separation Allowances in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

Chapter 10 Unionism in Defeat: The Unravelling of a World War I Compact in Texas Rail Towns

Chapter 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)

Chapter 12 “Eminently appalling suffering”: Irish Women in World War I Medical Services, Citizenship, and Remembrance in the Irish Free State During the 1920s

Chapter 13 The “Barefoot War”: How World War I and British Law Disrupted Gender Structures in Mandate Palestine