War Time

Louis Halewood is a DPhil student in History at Merton College, University of Oxford. His research analyses visions of a new world order, and the role of maritime power in its creation and underpinning, in Britain, France, and the United States between 1890 and 1922.Adam Luptak is a DPhil student in History at Oriel College, University of Oxford. His research explores the topic of disabled veterans of the Great War in interbellum Czechoslovakia.Hanna Smyth is a DPhil student in Global and Imperial History at Exeter College, University of Oxford. Her research is transnational comparison of Imperial War Graves Commission sites on the Western Front, examining how they represented different aspects of South African, Indian, Canadian, and Australian identities in the 1920s-1930s.

"The First World War was one of the most cataclysmic events of the 20th century. For many, the world stood still; for others their worlds were shaken beyond imagination. By placing time as the central framework of analysis, this collection of essays – based on research by up-and-coming scholars – pushes our understanding of the war and the experiences of those who lived through it in new directions. As we move beyond the centenary of the First World War, this volume is testimony to the fact that its historiography has never been in a more exciting place."- Professor Catriona Pennell, University of Exeter

• Contents;Foreword by John Horne;List of Contributors;Acknowledgements;Introduction ;Louis Halewood, Adam Luptak and Hanna Smyth;Section I: Speed, Pacing, & Suspension;No Time To Waste: How German military authorities attempted to speed up the recovery of soldiers in home front hospitals, 1914-1918. ;Alina Enzensberger ;Fast Therapy and Fast Recovery: The Role of Time for the Italian Neuropsychiatric Service in the War Zones. ;Anna Grillini;A Stitch in Time: Inefficiency and the Appeal of Patriotic Work in Australia and Canada. ;Steve Marti;Slow Going: Wartime Affect and Small Press Modernism. ;Cedric Van Dijck;Section II: Reorientation & Memory;"It is at night-time that we notice most of the changes in our life caused by the war": War-time, Zeppelins and Children’s Experience of the Great War in London. ;Assaf Mond;Time, Space, and Death: Germany’s Living and Lost Aviators of the First World War. ;Robert William Rennie;The Photo Albums of the First World War: Composing and Practicing the Images of the Time of Destruction. ;Erica Grossi; Section III: Relationship Between Past, Present, & Future;Brothers – and Sons – in Arms: First World War Memory, the Life Cycle, and Generational Shifts during the Second World War. ;Ashley Garber;Between Passatism and Futurism: The Rites of Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in a Transnational Perspective (1914-1919). ;Sante Lesti;Hoping for Victorious Peace: Morale and the Future on the Western Front, 1914-1918.;Alexander C. Mayhew;Index