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The Global First World War African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators

248 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

248 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

248 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This volume deals with the multiple impacts of the First World War on societies from South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually largely overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. Due to the lesser intensity of their military involvement in the war (neutrals or latecomers), these countries or regions were considered "peripheral" as a topic of research. However, in the last two... Read more

Introduction: The global First World War and its mediators

Ana Paula Pires, Maria Inés Tato and Jan Schmidt

1. Chinese workers on the Western Front and their extraordinary artistic and personal journey

Xu Guoqi

2. The impact of the First World War on Japan’s foreign book market

Maj Hartmann

3. Mediating enmity: The propaganda war in Latin America, 1914–1919

Stefan Rinke

4. Reporting the war in British Africa

Anne Samson

5. Coverage of the First World War in regional Mexican press: An analysis of El Informador in Guadalajara

Guillemette Martin

6. All about national survival: Chinese intellectuals’ understanding of war during the interwar period, 1914–1937

Kwong Chi Man

7. Not a secondary experience: The First World War in Japanese mass media, ministerial bureaucracy publications, elementary schools, and department stores

Jan Schmidt

8. An Argentine reporter in the European trenches: Lieut. Col. Emilio Kinkelin’s war chronicles

María Inés Tato, Luis Esteban Dalla Fontana

9. Covert wars in Spain (1914–1918): Belligerent agency and local impacts

Carolina García Sanz

10. Portuguese humanitarian efforts during the First World War 1

Ana Paula Pires, Rita Nunes