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The Great War and the British Empire : culture and society

Title
The Great War and the British Empire : culture and society / edited by Michael J.K. Walsh and Andrekos Varnava.
ISBN
9781472462275
1472462270
9781315557502
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Physical Description
xxiv, 310 pages ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2017
Series
Ashgate studies in First World War history.
Routledge studies in First World War history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. The Great War and the British Empire
The Great War and the British Empire: conflict, culture, and memory / Michael Walsh and Andrekos Varnava
The First World War and the cultural, political, and environmental transformation of the British Empire / John MacKenzie
Part II. Imperial responses, identities and culture
The Kaiser cartoon, 1914-1918: a transnational comic art genre / Richard Scully
Musical entertainment and the British Empire, 1914-1918 / E. L Hanna
We New Zealanders pride ourselves most of all upon loyalty to our empire, our country, our flag: internalised Britishness and national character in New Zealand's First World War propaganda / Greg Hynes
Heligoland: between the lion and the eagle / Jan Asmussen
Imperial Austerlitz: the Singapore strategy and the culture of victory, 1917-1924 / William Matthew Kennedy
Part III. Art, memory and forgetting
Our warrior brown brethran: identity and difference in images of non-White soldiers serving with the British Army in British art of the First World War / Jonathan Black
The imagining of Mesopotamia/Iraq in British art in the aftermath of the Great War / Tim Buck
Spaces of conflict and ambivalent attachments: Irish artists visualize the Great War / Nuala Johnson
Empire and nation in Canadian and Australian First World War exhibitions, 1917-1922 / Jennifer Wellington
A tribute to the British Empire: Lowell Thomas's with Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia / Justin Fantauzzo
An architecture of imperial ambivalence: the Patcham Chattri / Tim Barringer
The Great War's impact on imperial Delhi: commemorating wartime sacrifice in the colonial built environment / David Johnson
Sounds from the trenches: Australian composers and the Great War / Andrew Harrison
Brutalised veterans and tragic anti-heroes: masculinity, crime and post-war trauma in boardwalk empire and peaky blinders / Evan Smith
The politics of forgetting the Cypriot Mule Corps / Andrekos Varnava.
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