Communication and the First World War

Summary

Despite the voluminous historical literature on the First World War, a volume devoted to the theme of communication has yet to appear. From the communication of war aims and objectives to the communication of war call-up and war experience and knowledge, this volume fills the gap in the market, including the work of both established and newly emerging scholars working on the First World War across the globe. The volume will include chapters that focus on the experience of belligerent and also neutral powers, thus providing a genuinely representative dimension to the subject.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Professor Glyn Harper

Introduction: Perspectives on Communication and the Study of the First World War
John Griffiths

1. Writing a war of words: Negotiating Trench Warfare in Andrew Clark’s ‘English Words in War-Time’
Lynda Mugglestone

2. British Discourse, Representations and Conceptualisations of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War
Peter Morgan

3. ‘Spreading Fields of Victory’?: The Reporting of Gallipoli, Jutland and the Somme in The War Illustrated
Jonathan Rayner

4. Fake News or an Education in War? Communicating War Aims to the British Public in its Early Phases: The Oxford Pamphlets 1914-1915
John Griffiths

5. Desperately Seeking the Centre: Critiques of U.S. Propaganda Posters During a ‘Highbrow’ vs. ‘Lowbrow’ Age
Harlen Makemson

6. The Future of Alsace: The French Case to the Americans
Christopher Fischer

7. Women's War: Engaging Canadian Housewives in the Food Economy in 1914-1918
Mourad Djebabla

8. ‘Continuing the Mission’: The First World War and the Roots of Red Scare Violence, 1919-21
Matthew Kovac

9. International Propaganda in Spain During the First World War: State of the Art and New Contributions
Marta Garcia Cabrera

10. Great expectations: The Latency of the First World War in Republican Portugal (1914-1916)
José Miguel Sardica

11. The Role of the Dundee Press and Public Propaganda in shaping public opinion and home front support for the war effort in Scotland, 1914-1918
William Kenefick

12. Wartime and Postwar Medical Communication: The Role of the U.S. Army Medical Library
Jeffrey S. Reznick and Kenneth M. Koyle

Editor(s) Bio

John Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand. He is author of Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities 1880-1939 (2014); co-editor with Andrew Brown of The Citizen: Past and Present (2017). He is one of the Managing Editors of the journal Britain and the World.