The Great War and the British Empire Culture and society [Hardcover]

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable.

It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of thepax Britannica.

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Foreword: Richard Cork: Hyde Park Corner: Imperial Triumph and Tragedy

Part I:The Great War and the British Empire

Chapter 1: The Great War and the British Empire: Conflict, Culture, and Memory, Michael Walsh and Andrekos Varnava

Chapter 2 The First World War and the Cultural, Political, and Environmental Transformation of the British Empire, John MacKenzie

Part II: Imperial Responses, Identities and Culture

Chapter 3: The Kaiser Cartoon, 19141918: A Transnational Comic Art Genre, Richard Scully

Chapter 4: Musical Entertainment and the British Empire, 19141918,E. L Hanna

Chapter 5:  We New Zealanders pride ourselves most of all upon loyalty to our Empire, our Country, our Flag : Internalised Britishness and National Character in New Zealands First World War Propaganda Greg Hynl£ç