1st Edition

An International Rediscovery of World War One Distant Fronts

182 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean. Readers can uncover the neglected stories of this World War I as contributors draw particular attention to features of the war that are underrepresented... Read more

Foreword  
Jennifer D. Keene 

Introduction 
Robert B. McCormick, Araceli Hernández-Laroche and Catherine G. Canino  
 
1. Forgotten Prisoners of the Tsar: East Prussian Deportees in Russia during World War I
Charles Perrin
 
2. The Forgotten Front? Serbia, Memory and World War I
Jason Hansen 
 
3. From George Tom in Cleveland, Ohio, to His Father Tannous Gergis, Mt. Lebanon, Syria:  Remittances as Transnational Relief During World War One
Christine B. Lindner 

4. The Treaty of Versailles and the Rise of Chinese Feminism
Nicole Richardson  
 
5. Distanced, Disembodied, and Detached: Women’s Poetry of the First World War
Constance Ruzich  
 
6. The Martinican War Experience through the Lenses of Raphaël Confiant, Jacques Dumont, and Stéphane Dufoix Jeremy Patterson 

7. Between Scylla and Charybdis: Chinese Laborers Under the French-American Supervision in France During World War One
Olga V. Alexeeva

Biography

Robert B. McCormick is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Araceli Hernández-Laroche is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and the Assistant Chair of Languages, Literature, and Composition at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Catherine G. Canino is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate.