Small nations and colonial peripheries in World War I / edited by Gearoid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago, Roisin Healy.

"This edited volume examines the experience of World War I of small nations, defined here in terms of their relative weakness vis-à-vis the major actors in European diplomacy, and colonial peripheries, encompassing areas that were subject to colonial rule by European empires and thus located far from the heartland of these empires. The chapters address subject nations within Europe, such as Ireland and Poland; neutral states, such as Sweden and Spain; and overseas colonies like Tunisia, Algeria and German East Africa. By combining analyses of both European and extra-European experiences of war, this collection of essays provides a unique comparative perspective on World War I and points the way towards an integrated history of small nations and colonial peripheries. Contributors are Steven Balbirnie, Gearóid Barry, Jens Boysen, Ingrid Brühwiler, William Buck, AUde Chanson, Enrico Dal Lago, Matias Gardin, Richard Gow, Florian Grafl, Dónal Hassett, Guido Hausmann, Róisín Healy, Conor Morrissey, Michael Neiberg, David Noack, Chris Rominger, Danielle Ross and Christine Strotmann"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Shifting identities in the global war -- Towards an interconnected history of World War I : Europe and beyond / Gearoid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago and Roisin Healy -- The revolutionary program of the German empire : the case of Ireland / Christine Strotmann -- "I want citizens' clothes" : Irish and German-Americans respond to war, 1914-1917 / Michael Neiberg -- Part 2. Small nations -- Protestant nationalists and the Irish conscription crisis, 1918 / Conor Morrissey -- POWs and civilian internees in Ireland during World War I / William Buck -- Neutral allies or immoral pariahs? : Scandinavian neutrality, international law and Great Power politics in World War I / Michael Jonas -- Civil and military relations in Spain in the context of World War I / Richard Gow -- World War I and its impact on Catalonia / Florian Grafl -- Fabricating national unity in torn contexts : World War I in the multilingual countries of Switzerland and Luxembourg / Ingrid Bruhwiler and Matias Gardin -- Imperial service, alienation, and an unlikely national "rebirth" : the Poles in World War I / Jens Boysen -- The Ukrainian moment of World War I / Guido Hausmann -- Part 3. War and its prelude -- Small war on a violent frontier : colonial warfare and British intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919 / Steven Balbirnie -- Fighting for the tsar, fighting against the tsar : the use of folk culture to mobilize the Tatar population during World War I and the Russian Revolution, (1914-1921) / Danielle Ross -- Continuing the great game : Turkestan as a German objective in World War I / David X. Noack -- Paths not taken : Mukhtar al-Ayari and alternative voices in post-war Tunisia / Chris Rominger -- Defining imperial citizenship in the shadow of World War I : equality and difference in the debates around post-war colonial reform in Algeria / Donal Hassett.

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