Proximity and Distance
Space, Time and World War I
Imprint
Proximity and Distance
Space, Time and World War I
Contents
Foreward
Reframing the Narrative of a Global Conflict - Bruno Cabanes
Chapter 1: World War I and the Space-Time-War Nexus - Roman Fathi and Emily Robertson
PART I: TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC CHALLENGES
Chapter 2: Military Theory and Physical Proximity in the British and French Infantry during World War I - Jean-Philippe Miller-Tremblay
Chapter 3: Historiographical Distance and Western Proximity to the Ottoman World - Thomas Schmutz
PART II: BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: PROPAGANDA AND PERSUASION.
Chapter 4: The Cinema's Front Row: Propaganda and Visual Proximity in German Film during World War I - Peters Mersereau
Chapter 5: 'Cooee': The Theme of Distance in Austalian Recruitment Posters during World War I - Nathan Wise
Chapter 6: Shared Ideals: Transatlantic Liberalism, Atrocity Propaganda and US Entry into World War I - Chad Fulwider and Emily Robertson
PART III: BRINGING THE DIASPORA TOGETHER
Chapter 7: Globalising World War I: The Italian War Effort in Greater Buenos Aires - John Starosta Galante
Chapter 8: Wartime Migration and Humanitarian Relief: The Philanthropic Mission of the Gustavus Adolphus Association in the German Diaspora in Occupied Eastern Europe during World War I - Kevin Cramer
PART IV: TIME, MEMORY AND UNDERSTANDING
Chapter 9: 'Always Thinking in the Other Part of the Globe': Australians and the Meanings of Wartime Correspondence - Bart Ziino
Chapter 10: French Resistances and the Shadow of the Great War - Guillaume Piketty
Chapter 11: Repatriating the Remains of the Russian Combatants during the Great War - Nikolai Rodin
Chapter 12: The Greater Great War in Serbia: Historical Distance in Serbian literature - John K Cox
Romain Fathi
Dr Romain Fathi is a Senior Lecturer in History at Flinders University and an Affiliated Researcher at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po in Paris. His research interests are concerned with war commemorations, World War I, and Australian war memorialisation in France. Dr Fathi publishes in French and in English, and has taught at several universities, including Sciences Po, Yale, and the University of Queensland. His latest book, Our Corner of the Somme, was…
Emily Robertson
Dr Emily Robertson teaches at the Strategic Defence Studies Centre at ANU and did her PhD at UNSW Canberra. Her research focuses on the role that propaganda plays in military strategy and recruiting. She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on Australian First World War propaganda.
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