The Great War and the British Empire

Culture and society
Herausgeber: Varnava, Andrekos; Walsh, Michael J. K.

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable.¿ It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781138330122
• ISBN-10: 1138330124
• Artikelnr.: 54802653

Autorenporträt

Michael J.K. Walsh is Associate Professor in Art History, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has primarily published on English painting in the first two decades of the 20th century and the art and conservation of Famagusta, Cyprus. Andrekos Varnava is Associate Professor in Imperial and Military History, Flinders University, Australia. He is author of British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: The Inconsequential Possession (2009; paperback 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword: Richard Cork: 'Hyde Park Corner: Imperial Triumph and Tragedy'
Part I: The Great War and the British Empire
Chapter 1: 'The Great War and the British Empire: Conflict, Culture, and
Memory', Michael Walsh and Andrekos Varnava
Chapter 2 'The First World War and the Cultural, Political, and
Environmental Transformation of the British Empire', John MacKenzie
Part II: Imperial Responses, Identities and Culture
Chapter 3: 'The 'Kaiser Cartoon', 1914-1918: A Transnational Comic Art
Genre', Richard Scully
Chapter 4: 'Musical Entertainment and the British Empire, 1914-1918', E. L
Hanna
Chapter 5: '"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
Chapter 6: 'Heligoland: Between the Lion and the Eagle' Jan Asmussen
Chapter 7: 'Imperial Austerlitz: The Singapore Strategy and the Culture of
Victory, 1917-1924', William Matthew Kennedy
Part III: Art, Memory and Forgetting
Chapter 8: '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
Chapter 9: 'The Imagining of Mesopotamia/Iraq in British Art in the
Aftermath of the Great War', Tim Buck
Chapter 10: 'Spaces of Conflict and Ambivalent Attachments: Irish Artists
Visualize the Great War', Nuala Johnson
Chapter 11: 'Empire and Nation in Canadian and Australian First World War
Exhibitions, 1917-1922', Jennifer Wellington
Chapter 12: 'A Tribute to the British Empire: Lowell Thomas's With Allenby
in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia', Justin Fantauzzo
Chapter 13: 'An Architecture of Imperial Ambivalence: The Patcham Chattri',
Tim Barringer
Chapter 14: 'The Great War's Impact on Imperial Delhi: Commemorating
Wartime Sacrifice in the Colonial Built Environment', David Johnson
Chapter 15: 'Sounds from the Trenches: Australian Composers and the Great
War', Andrew Harrison
Chapter 16: 'Brutalised' veterans and tragic anti-heroes: Masculinity,
Crime and Post-War Trauma in Boardwalk Empire and Peaky Blinders', Evan
Smith
Chapter 17: 'The Politics of Forgetting the Cypriot Mule Corps', Andrekos
Varnava