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Degrees of Allegiance
Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil.Degrees of Allegianceexamines the experiences of German-Americans living in Missouri during the First World War, evaluating the personal relationships at the local level that shaped their lives and the way that they were affected by national war effort guidelines. Spared from widespread hate crimes, German-Americans in Missouri did not have the same bleak experiences as other German-Americans in the Midwest or across America. But they were still subject to regular charges of disloyalty, sometimes because of conflicts within the German-American community itself.Degrees of Allegianceupdates traditional thinking about the German-American experience during the Great War, taking into account not just the war years but also the history of German settlement and the war's impact on German-American culture.
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The meaning of names : a novel
\"Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of an ordinary woman trying to raise a family during extraordinary times. Estranged from her parents because she married against their will, confronted with violence and prejudice against her people, and caught up in the midst of the worst plague the world has ever seen, Gerda Vogel, an American of German descent, must find the strength to keep her family safe from the effects of a war that threatened to consume the whole world. The Meaning of Names re-creates a world gone by that speaks eloquently to modern day issues\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The Kaiser's Captive
Albert Rhys Williams was an American journalist and author.In 1914, Williams travelled to Europe as the special war correspondent for Outlook magazine, tasked with the duty of reporting the events of the Great War.In these early days of the conflict, Williams had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Imperial German Army.
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America's U-Boats
pThe submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the emLusitania/em and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons \"Hun Devil Boats,\" \"Sea Thugs,\" and \"Baby Killers.\" But at the conflict's conclusion, the U.S. Navy acquired six U-boats to study and to serve as war souvenirs. Until their destruction under armistice terms in 1921, these six U-boats served as U.S. Navy ships, manned by American crews. The ships visited eighty American cities to promote the sale of victory bonds and to recruit sailors, allowing hundreds of thousands of Americans to see up close the weapon that had so captured the public's imagination./p pIn emAmerica's U-Boats/em Chris Dubbs examines the legacy of submarine warfare in the American imagination. Combining nautical adventure, military history, and underwater archaeology, Dubbs shares the previously untold story of German submarines and their impact on American culture and reveals their legacy and Americans' attitudes toward this new wonder weapon./p
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Rhetoric and reality in air warfare
A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about \"strategic\" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged.
Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible.
Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare.
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The First World War as a Clash of Cultures
This volume of essays examines the perceived rift between the British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and how the resultant war of words both reflects and helped determine historical, political, and, ultimately, military events. This vexed symbiosis is traced first through a survey of popular fiction, from alarmist British and German \"invasion novels\" to the visions of Erskine Childers and Saki and even P.G. Wodehouse; contrastingly, the \"mixed-marriage novels\" of von Arnim, Spottiswoode, and Wylie are considered. Further topics include D. H. Lawrence's ambivalent relationship with Germany, Carl Sternheim's coded anti-militarism, H. G. Wells's and Kurd Lasswitz's visions of their countries under Martian invasion, Nietzsche as the embodiment of Prussian warmongering, and the rise in Germany of anglophobic, anti-Spencerian evolutionism. Case histories of the positions of German and English academics in regard to the conflict round out the volume. CONTRIBUTORS: IAIN BOYD WHITE, HELENA RAGG-KIRKBY, RHYS WILLIAMS, INGO CORNILS, NICHOLAS MARTIN, GREGORY MOORE, STEFAN MANZ, ANDREAS HUTHER, HOLGER KLEIN. Fred Bridgham is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Leeds.
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Transatlantic Relations and the Great War
Transatlantic Relations and the Great War explores the relations between the Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the modern U.S. democracy and how that relationship developed over decades until it ended in a final rupture.
As the World War I drew to a close in late 1918, the Mid-European Union was created to fill the vacuum in Central and Eastern Europe as the old Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was falling apart. One year before, in December 1917, the United States had declared war on Austria-Hungary and, overnight, huge masses of immigrants from the Habsburg Empire became enemy aliens in the United States. Offering a major deviation from traditional historiography, this book explains how the countdown of mostly diplomatic events in that fatal year 1918 could have taken an alternative course. In addition to providing a narrative account of Austrian-Hungarian relations with the United States in the years leading up to the World War I, the author also demonstrates how an almost total ignorance of the affairs of the Dual Monarchy was to be found in the United States and vice versa.
This book is a fascinating and important resource for students and scholars interested in modern European and U.S. history, diplomatic relations, and war studies.
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Words, Words Words!
First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose. In an entertaining way, the book jovially explores and discusses various words and phrases such as \"bloody\", euphemisms, the Devil’s nicknames, various versions of slang, and familiar terms of address. He does so with light-worn learning making the book of interest to a whole variety of readers.
Preface; Part 1: An Etymological Medly 1. Offensive ationality 2. Footpads and Highwaymen 3. The Devil and His Nicknames 4. Familiar Terms of Address 5. Rhyming Slang, Black Slang, and Other Oddities 6. The Art of Lightening Work 7. The Philology of Christmas 8. All Fools’ Day 9. Representative Names 10. American Cant 11. The Word Bloody 12. Euphemism and Euphemisms Part 2: Semi-Biographical 13. One of John Wesley’s Side-Lines 14. Johnson’s Dictionary 15. A Falstaff among Antiquaries Part 3: Aspects of Soldiers’ Slang 16. British Soldiers’ Slang with a Past 17. German Army Slang 18. The Slang of the POILU 19. Soldiers’ Slang of Three Nations Appendices 1. Boxing Day 2. Some Groups of ‘Tommy’ Words 3. The POILU on Himself and Others; Index
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