Archiv für Dezember 2014

Demobilization and Empire: Empire Nationalism and Soldier Citizenship in Australia After the First World War – in Dominion Context

This article analyses the demobilization of Australian veterans after the First World War, placing this process in the broader transnational context of Britain’s settler society dominions more generally. It explores the public challenges posed b…

Enduring Violence: The Postwar Struggles in East-Central Europe, 1917-21

In East-Central Europe, the First World War did not end with the armistices of 1918. In the wake of the Russian Revolution and imperial collapse, armed conflicts of various kinds, sizes, and political motivation dominated the years 1917 to 1922, when …

A ‚Brutalizing‘ War? The USA after the First World War

Were US citizens brutalized by the First World War? Mobilization unified the nation, forcing both the willing and unwilling to take a stand in regards to the war and war-induced changes within American society. The spike in the use of violence to achi…

Demobilization and Remobilization of German and Lithuanian Paramilitaries after the First World War

This article explores the dynamic relationship between demobilization and remobilization in Lithuania after 1918. Focusing on the formation of Lithuanian and German paramilitaries and their military roles in the postwar conflict, the article argues th…

Demobilization in British and French Africa at the End of the First World War

This article reconsiders important aspects of African participation in the First World War, both in Europe and in Africa itself, as part of the British and French empires. More specifically, it explores demobilization at the end of the war in comparis…

Brutalization Revisited: The Case of Russia

In the case of Russia, the existence of a relationship between lost war, revolution, and Civil War is obvious. Unlike the German case, however, it has not been investigated in any detail. The Great War is often seen as the ‘forgotten war’ …

The Limits of Demobilization: Global Perspectives on the Aftermath of the Great War

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/50/1/3?rss=1

0102 Cecilia Paredes, The Confusion of the Battlefield. A New Perspective on the Tapestries of the Battle of Pavia (c. 1525-1531)

This contribution is devoted to the tapestry cycle of the Battle of Pavia conserved at the Museo Capodimonte in Naples. Seven tapestries compose this prestigious tapestry set that commemorates the first military success of Charles V […]

‘Let’s get laid because it’s the end of the world!’: sexuality, gender and the Spanish Left in late Francoism and the Transición

Volume 22, Issue 1, February 2015, pages 176-198<br/>10.1080/13507486.2014.983433<br/>Kostis Kornetis

‘The personal is political’: sexuality, gender and the Left in Europe during the 1970s

Volume 22, Issue 1, February 2015, pages 1-15<br/>10.1080/13507486.2014.983425<br/>Nikolaos Papadogiannis