The Routledge History of the First World War is a work which, in a single volume, covers a range of major themes and issues relating to that conflict.
Providing a comprehensive but readily accessible reference work examining the First World War, in accordance with a broad range of themes, this book presents the many ways in which study of the First World War can take place and introduces readers to new areas of research, often untouched in other studies of the war. With a scholarly Introduction, 60 chapters by specialist authors who come from 14 different countries, across four continents, the book is also intended to open lines of further inquiry from its solid base of academic knowledge. The volume demonstrates the war’s global and total nature, examining the conflict in all major theatres and through the lens of the key combatants and neutrals. It also fully engages with issues of race, gender, ideology, and society during the war.
This book will appeal to students of all levels, scholars, and general readers alike interested in the First World War from several different perspectives and research areas. The 60 chapters cover topics from numerous angles and provide detailed information about all aspects relating to the First World War.
Introduction
Origins and Outbreak: Why War?
Andrew G. Bonnell
Part 1: Conflict: Fighting the War
1 The Western Front: Then and Now
William Philpott
2 The Eastern Front
David R. Stone
3 The Middle East Front during the First World War
Jean Bou
4 A “Sideshow” to the Great War: The Forgotten Campaign in the Caucasus
Tigran Martirosyan
5 A Cosmopolitan Education in Arms: The Salonika Front 1915-1918
Alan Wakefield
6 The Italian Front
Marco Mondini
7 The First World War at Sea: A Tale of Two Wars
Richard Dunley
8 Cavalry of the Clouds: The Development and Experience of the First World War in the Air
Ross Mahoney
Part 2: Experiences: The Allied and Associated Powers
9 Invaded, Occupied, Liberated: Belgium in the First World War
Laurence van Ypersele and Emmanuel Debruyne
10 Brazil at War
Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho
11 Chinese Manpower Contributions and Dashed Hopes in the First World War and Versailles
Kristin Mulready-Stone
12 The French Home Front(s), 1914-1918
Martha Hanna
13 Greece, 1914-1922: The Experience of Total War
Loukianos Hassiotis
14 New Perspectives on Ireland’s Great War
Marie Coleman
15 Italy during the First World War: The Home Front
Marco Mondini and Francesco Frizzera
16 Japan in the First World War
Frederick R. Dickinson
17 The Kingdom of Montenegro: A State Lost in the Great War
František Šistek
18 Portugal at War
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
19 Romania’s Road to War and its Aftermath
Paul R. Bartrop
20 Imperial Russia’s Revolutionary Great War
Laura Engelstein
Jovana Lazić
22 “Put This in Our Great History:” Thai Experiences in World War I
Richard A. Ruth
23 Enduring the First World War: British Society, 1914-1918
Catriona Pennell
24 The United States during the First World War
Andrew S. Walgren
Part 3: Experiences: The Central Powers
25 Austria-Hungary Enters the War and Why it Never Left
Anatol Schmied-Kowarzik
26 “May the Bulgarian Soldier Fly from One Victory to Another:” Bulgarian Participation in the Great War
Eleonora Naxidou
27 German Society and the First World War
Paul R. Bartrop
28 The Ottoman Empire
Charalampos Minasidis
Part 4: Experiences: Greater Britain
29 The First World War in Australia: Commitment and Division
Bart Ziino
30 Affirming a Nation: Canadians Respond to the First World War
Serge Marc Durflinger
31 Crossroads of Empire: India during the First World War
Andrew T. Jarboe
32 Equalizing Sacrifice: New Zealand Society and Conscription
David Littlewood
33 An Ill-Fated Encounter: Newfoundland and the First World War
Paul R. Bartrop
34 A House Divided: South Africa and the First World War
Ian van der Waag and Kent Fedorowich
35 “Lads of the West:” The British West Indies Regiment (1915-1919)
Dominiek Dendooven
Part 5: Diversities: Colonial Empires at War
36 The British Colonial Empire
Bill Nasson
37 Rallying, Reconfiguring and Resisting Empire: Dynamics of the First World War in France’s Colonies
Dónal Hassett
38 World War I and the German Colonies
Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
39 From the Center to the Edge: Italian Colonies in the First World War
Simona Berhe
40 The Belgian Colonial Empire
Matthew G. Stanard
41 The Portuguese Colonial Empire and Portuguese Communities Abroad
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses
Part 6: Backrooms: Fighting by Other Means
42 Alliance Politics and the First World War
Greg Kennedy
43 Science, Technology, and Innovation
Jeffrey Allan Johnson
44 Propaganda
Stephen Badsey
45 Intelligence in the Great War
Mark Stout
Part 7: Solace, Pain, Torment, and Slaughter
46 Conscientious Objectors and the War
Christopher L. Harrison
47 Civilian Internment and the War
Arnd Bauerkämper
48 “God with us, and we with God, and victory will be ours:” War, Religion and the Chaplains
Hanneke Takken
49 The Wounds of War: Injury, Sickness and Survival on the Western Front
Fiona Reid
50 Behind Barbed Wire: The International Experience of Captivity during the First World War
Aaron Pegram
51 “A Purely Intuitive Sense of what Justice Demanded:” War Pogroms, 1914-1918
Polly Zavadivker
52 Genocide during the First World War
Deborah Mayersen
Part 8: Surviving: Remaining Neutral
53 Neutrals and Neutrality in a World of Total War, 1914-1918
Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames
54 Vatican Neutrality and the Great War
Adrian Ciani
Part 9: Termination: Ending the War
55 How to End the War? From “Peace Without Victory” to a Victory Without Peace
Philip Zelikow
Nick Lloyd
57 Complications and Compromise: The Paris Peace Conference and the End of the Great War
David Sutton
Part 10: Remembrance and Meanings
58 Starting Over: Reordering Society
Jordana Silverstein
59 Remember the Fallen: Memorialization of the Great War
Abigail Winslow
60 Endings and Beginnings: A World at War and its Place in Global History
Gary Sheffield
Chronology of the First World War
Biography
Paul R. Bartrop is Emeritus Professor of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, and a Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. A much-published author and editor, his works include The Routledge History of the Second World War (2021).
