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Military history.
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Civilization -- History.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Landscapes of War: A Fertile Terrain for First World War Scholarship -- Defining Landscapes of War -- Landscapes of the Great War -- Part I Environment, Climate and Weather at War -- Chapter 2 Making Oil Essential: Emerging Patterns of Petroleum Culture in the United States During the Era of the Great War -- Powering the Modern World -- Britain Connects Oil with National Security -- Price, Stratigraphy and Global Competition -- Conflict and Innovation in the Great War -- Conclusion: The Military-Petroleum Complex Defines the Anthropocene -- Chapter 3 "Lamps Never Before Dim Are Being Extinguished from Lack of Olive Oil": Deforestation and Famine in Palestine at War and in Peace Under the Late Ottoman Empire and Early British Empire, 1910-1920 -- Settlement Patterns Before the First World War: Peasant Preferences for the Hills and for Olives -- Olive Cultivation and Olive-Oil Production on the Eve of the War -- Pre-war Fuel Regime -- Conditions Before and During the First World War -- 1915, the Year of the Locust: Questions of Deforestation and Famine in Palestine -- The Last Years of War for Palestine -- Palestine Under British Military Rule and the Success of the British Blockade -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Rain and Bad Weather During War: The Role of Climate and Environment During the Great War in Cameroon (1914-1916) -- Cameroon's Environment during the Great War: A Diverse Theatre of Operations -- The Environment as a Protagonist of the Cameroon Campaign -- Conclusion -- Part II Urban and Industrial Landscapes Transformed -- Chapter 5 The First World War on the Streets: Urban Conformity and Citizenship in the United States -- The First World War, the City and the 'Streetscape' -- The War on the Streets: The United States and the First World War. |
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Defining Urban Identity in the United States and the Outbreak of War -- Establishing Urban Conformity in the United States During the War -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Land of the Red Soil: War Ruins and Industrial Landscapes in Luxembourg -- Picturing the Land of the Red Soil -- Souvenirs de Luxembourg -- Postcards from the Home Front -- Part III Cross-Cultural Encounters With Landscapes -- Chapter 7 The Long Carry: Landscapes and the Shaping of British Medical Masculinities in the First World War -- The Line of Evacuation -- Manipulating -- Negotiating -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Scientists in Uniform: The German Military and the Investigation of the Ottoman Landscape -- German Officers and Scientists in the Middle East -- Purposes of Research -- Research with Colonial Attitude? -- Chapter 9 The Home and the World: War-Torn Landscapes and the Literary Imagination of a Bengali Military Doctor in Mesopotamia During the First World War -- The Roses of Basra: Literary Imagination Versus Reality -- Rivers of Blood: Reconciliation with the Real -- All for a Piece of Land: Landscape and Nationalism -- Part IV Legacies of the First World War in Landscapes -- Chapter 10 Neither Here Nor There: War Memorial Landscape in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Emigration, 1914-1939 -- War: The Moscow City War Cemetery -- Revolution: Victims and Heroes on the Field of Mars -- Emigration: Hope Along the Marne -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Memory, Landscape and the Architecture of the Imperial War Graves Commission -- Direct Replication -- Partial or Inferred Replication -- Inferred Space -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Traces of Being: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on First World War Conflict Landscapes -- The Western Front -- Modern Layers -- Landscape into Objects -- The Soca/Isonzo Front -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
| Note |
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Salvante, Martina.
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Wilcox, Vanda.
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| ISBN |
9783319894119 (e-book) |
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