Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict [Paperback]

Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, the British, Ottoman, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Belgian Empires were at war. Empires in World War I marks a turn away from the pre-eminence of the Western Front in the current scholarship, and seeks to reconstitute our understanding of this war as a truly global struggle between competing empires. Based on primary research, this book opens up new debates on the effects of the Great War in colonial arenas. The book assesses the effects of the war on Native Americans in the United States for example, as well as on the relationship between India and Pakistan, the British justice system in Palestine and the 'imperial scramble' in the Asia-Pacific region. Empires in World War I will be essential reading for students and scholars of the twentieth century.Richard S. Fogarty is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY. Andrew Jarboe is completing his PhD at Northeastern University, Boston.

Part I: Myths and Realities of Imperial Expansion

Chapter 1. Matthew G. Stanard, Digging-In: The Great War and the Roots of Belgian Empire
Chapter 2. Maryanne Rhett, Race and Imperial Ambition: The case of Japan and India after World War One
Chapter 3. William Matthew Kennedy, A Pacific Scramble?: Imperial Readjustment in the Asia Pacific, 1911-1922

Part II: Soldiers of Empire, Far from Home
Chapter 4. Steve Sabol, 'It was a Pretty Good War, but They Stopped it too Soon': The American Empire, Native Americans, and the First World War
Chapter 5. Julian Saltman, The Full and Just Penalty?: British Military Justice and the Empire's War for Palestine
Chapter 6. Andrew T. Jarboe, Propaganda and Empire in the Heart of Europe: Indian Soldiers in Hospital and Prison, 1914-1918

Part III: Thinking Imperially, Acting Locally
Chapter 7. Sarah Zimmerman, Citl3.