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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"The Great War"”.
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Wesham During the Great War
This study will establish the community characteristics of Wesham prior to the Great War. It will then seek to identify any continuums and changes during and post conflict, comparing these to identified national trends. Considering initial responses, a cursory view would assume that the high number …
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Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.
<p>During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth …
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Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War
This study places the experiences of black Jamaican volunteers in the Great War in the context of challenges to white masculinity presented by the conflict. Elaine Showalter's discussion of "male hysteria" is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of …
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Patriotic labour in the era of the great war
Despite the vast amount of scholarship completed on the First World War, relatively little work has focused on the British Left and the conflict. The aim of this thesis is to rectify this, by examining left-wing support for the war effort, and the implications of this for the labour movement. This …
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Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War discourse on "Shell-Shock"
Introduction: The infantrymen of the Great War experienced the unimaginable. Soldiers in the trenches internalized images of confusion and gore, and returned to a society unwilling and often unable to comprehend their sacrifices. For nearly 65,000 of these soldiers, their experiences on the front …
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God, Grief and Community:Commemoration of the Great War in Huddersfield, c. 1914-1929
This thesis is concerned with the borough of Huddersfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, during and after the First World War. It examines the creation of war memorials at all levels, from the borough-wide official scheme, through those relating to smaller geographical areas within it, and down …
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For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914-1945
<p>In the postwar period historians argued that the horrors of the First World War created an irreparable disconnect between soldiers’ pre and postwar lives. Scholars led by Paul Fussell and Eric Leed presented the Great War as a futile waste of life for a meaningless cause. This historiography …
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Unsung Equine Heroes: An Analysis of Equine Care and Management During the Great War
This thesis explores the use of equines by the British Expeditionary Forces throughout the First World War, particularly examining various aspects of war equine care and management. It addresses the significance behind the use of these animals in the war before delving into the reality of how …
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Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
From 1914 to 1919, the German military established an occupation zone in the territory of present day Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Cultural historians have generally focused on the role of German soldiers as psychological and physical victims trapped in total war that was out of their control. …
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The Loss of Gallant Illusion: Aspects of the Narrative Before and After the Great War.
From within the reflecting images of Aldington and Faulkner a metaphor emerges for the discontinuity of narrative styles in North American fiction after the Great War.
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The impact of the Great War on a local community: the case of East Lothian
This is a study of the impact of the Great War on one local community - the Lowland Scottish county of East Lothian. The thesis examines the economic, social and political consequences of the war in the short term of the war years and in the longer perspective of the first pre-war decade. The …
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Playing American: race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during the Great War, 1917-1919
This dissertation explores the intersection of race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during US active engagement in the Great War through focusing on performances by and about German immigrants and African American soldiers. Quickly after President Woodrow Wilson requested a …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
This dissertation explores how the art songs of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed before the Great War expressed the composer’s vision of “Englishness” or “English national identity”. These terms can be defined as the popular national consciousness of the English people. …
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A Land Fit for Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914
<p>Despite the fact that over 200,000 Irish men fought in the British Army during the First World War, Ireland's sizeable contribution to the war remained in the shadows of history for most of the twentieth century. This dissertation examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War …
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The Body Politic: Imperial Masculinity, the Great War, and the Struggle for the Indian Self, 1914--1918
… resulted in a bruising ideological struggle to either preserve or alter the qualities that defined Indian identity not just within the colony itself, but also in the transnational imperial world. The battle, carried out via the metropolitan and Indian presses, hinged upon the question of Indian …
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(Re)constructing Johann Sebastian Bach: reception history and performance practice in New York City during the Great War
The perception of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) in New York City during the time of the Great War can be illuminated through two threads: 1) reception history and reputation, and 2) contemporary performance practices. Between 1914 and 1927, the reputation of Bach migrated away from one having …
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