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In popular memory and on the big screen, the First World War was fought in the mud of northern France — or maybe in the skies above it. But what about the war beyond the irreverently-nicknamed trenches? This episode will explore the war as it was fought in the wheat fields of Romania, in the plains of Cameroon, the waters of the Mediterranean, and the deserts of Libya. Examining lesser-known fronts of WWI will also show us different experiences, and different soldiers, as the imperial maps of the late nineteenth century were permanently altered.
Podcaster: Lucy
Further Reading
Jochen Böhler, Wlodzimierz Brodziej, and Joachim von Puttkamer, eds. Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe’s First World War. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, (2014). Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger, Gunda Barth-Scalmani, eds. Other Fronts, Other Wars? First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial. Willibroad Dze-Ngwa, “The First World War and its aftermath in Cameroon: A Historical Evaluation of a Centenary, 1914-2014.” International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science 3 (2015): 78-90. Trevor R. Getz, ed., African Voices of the Global Past: 1500 to the Present, Routledge, (2008) David D. Hamlin, “Wo sind wir? Orientalism, Gender, and War in the German Encounter with Romania.” German History 28 (2010): 424-52. T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Hannes Leidinger, ed. Habsburg's Last War: The Filmic Memory (1918 to the Present), University of New Orleans Press, (2018). Heike Liebau, Ravi Ahuja, Katrin Bromber, Dyala Hamzah, and Katharina Lange, eds. World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, Brill, (2014). Lydia Muthuma, “The Conservation of Public Monuments as a Tool for Building Collective Idenitity in Nairobi,” in: Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach, 59-74. Edited by Anne-Marie Disser and Mugwima Njuguna, UCL Press, (2016). David Omissi, ed., Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters, 1914-18, Palgrave Macmillan, (1999). Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
Damon Hickey
8/28/2018 10:45:50 pm
The official Library of Congress subject heading for World War I used to be “European War, 1914-1918,” whereas World War II was “World War, 1939-1945.” Not surprising, given that Americans fought WWI mainly in Europe, while they fought everywhere in WWII. That must have contributed to the Eurocentric view of WWI, at least in the U.S., that you rightly critique. Leave a Reply. |