Understanding WWI: Reading (Summer 2018)

A poster urging Red Cross membership. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Litho., [1917?]. Courtesy Library of Congress.)

Delve into key reading about World War I with this bibliography, compiled by Dr. Tammy M. Proctor.

 

Albert, Bill. South America and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Broadberry, Stephen, and Mark Harrison, eds. The Economics of World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Capozzola, Christopher. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.

Dumenil, Lynn. The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Fell, Alison S. Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Gatrell, Peter. Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History. Harlow, UK: Pearson, 2005.

Glidden, William. “Internment Camps in America, 1917–1920.” Military Affairs 37, no. 4 (December 1973): 137–41.

Gumz, Jonathan E. The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia, 1914–1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Irwin, Julia F. Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Jeffery, Keith. 1916: A Global History. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Jore, Jeff. “Pershing’s Mission in Mexico: Logistics and Preparation for the War in Europe.” Military Affairs 52, no. 3 (1988): 117–21.

Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.

Kirschbaum, Erik. The Eradication of German Culture in the United States, 1917–1918. Stuttgart: H. D. Heinz, 1986.

Kramer, Alan. Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. New York: Broadway Books, 2016.

Lohr, Eric. “The Russian Army and the Jews: Mass Deportation, Hostages, and Violence during World War I.” Russian Review 60 (July 2001).

Manela, Erez. The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914–1917. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.

______. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Master of Emergencies, 1917–1918. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Neiberg, Michael S. Fighting the Great War: A Global History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

______. The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Panayi, Panikos, ed. Germans as Minorities during the First World War: A Global Comparative Perspective. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.

Powell, Allan Kent, ed. Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I Experience. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2016.

Proctor, Tammy M. World War I: A Short History. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

Renda, Mary A. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915–1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Roshwald, Aviel. Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914–1923. London: Routledge, 2001.

Schröder, Hans-Jürgen. Confrontation and Cooperation: Germany and the United States in the Era of World War I, 1900–1924. Oxford: Berg, 1993.

Tucker, Richard P., Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid, eds. Environmental Histories
of the First World War. 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Winter, Jay, ed. The Cambridge History of the First World War. Three Volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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