1st Edition

After the Armistice Empire, Endgame and Aftermath

Edited By Michael J. K. Walsh, Andrekos Varnava Copyright 2021
300 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A century after the Armistice and the associated peace agreements that formally ended the Great War, many issues pertaining to the UK and its empire are yet to be satisfactorily resolved. Accordingly, this volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to better understanding the post-Armistice Empire across a broad spectrum of disciplines, geographies and chronologies. Through the lens of... Read more

Introduction: After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath

1. ‘Britannia Pacificatrix’: Re-Imagining a post-Armistice Empire

Michael Walsh and Andrekos Varnava

Part 1: Imperial Endgames

2. ‘Imperial Coercion in Ireland and India 1919–1921: Insights for Irish Australians.’

Stephanie James

3.  ‘Germans on the British Imperial Peripheries: Lagos and Tonga 1914–1919’

Peter J. Yearwood

4. ‘Imperial Masculinity and Racial Pacification: "Martial Bengalis" in the Great War’ 

Rajarshi Mitra

5.  ‘Society and Identity in the former Ottoman World: Encounters between Cypriots and Armenians of the Légion d’Orient in Cyprus in 1917–1918’

Andrekos Varnava

6. ‘Mary Booth’s Nationalism at the end of the Great War’

Bridget Brooklyn

7. ‘"The True Story of Ah Q": British decline, American power, the rise of Chinese nationalism 1918-1923 and reflexive contemporary centenary commemoration in China’

Tom Sear

8. ‘An Empire man on the road to Dominion independence: Robert Randolph Garran’s experience of the Armistice "blunder" and its aftermath’

Colin Milner

Part 2: Cultural Aftermaths

9.  ‘The threshold of the British Empire’: Accommodation, coercion and the commemoration of a national Australian narrative of war at an imperial site of memory

Matthew Haultain-Gall

10. ‘A deathless monument of valour’: The national memorialisation of Anzacs as ancient Greek citizen-soldiers from the war’s aftermath to the centenary Dawn Service at Gallipoli

Sarah Midford

11. ‘If Not In This World’: memorialising the personal narrative of micro-history with music

Andrew C. B. Harrison

12. ‘Pleasant Remembrances and Foreboding Futures’: Glorifying Representations of Empire and their Opposition within Britain’s National Cinema during the 1930s

Ellen Whitton

13. ‘Reconciliation through Commemoration’: Ireland, Empire, and the 1987 Enniskillen Armistice Day Bombing

Murphy Temple

14. ‘We’re here because we’re here’: The emotive power of the dominant cultural imaginary of the Tommy in post-Brexit Britain’

Kristin O’Donnell

Part 3: Coda

15. ‘The Hall of Remembrance’

Richard Cork

Biography

Michael J. K. Walsh is Chair of the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University Singapore and is Professor of Art History. He has published widely on culture at the time of the Great War and has a particular interest in painting and music.

Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, is an Associate Professor in History at Flinders University, South Australia, and an Honorary Professor in History at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of four monographs, eight edited volumes and 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.