Author: John B. Allcock
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
During the nineteenth century the Balkan countries b ecame the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This has had important consequences for the way in which the region has been viewed since then, and the creation of this image has had an impact on the many aspects of West European and North American responses to the Balkans, ranging from diplomatic and military involvement to the burgeoning flow of tourists. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travellers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not only as travellers but also in the fields of medical and military service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did these travellers contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of women's horizons, and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for women in society in general.
Black Lambs and Grey Falcons
Author: John B. Allcock
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
During the nineteenth century the Balkan countries b ecame the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This has had important consequences for the way in which the region has been viewed since then, and the creation of this image has had an impact on the many aspects of West European and North American responses to the Balkans, ranging from diplomatic and military involvement to the burgeoning flow of tourists. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travellers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not only as travellers but also in the fields of medical and military service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did these travellers contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of women's horizons, and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for women in society in general.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571818072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
During the nineteenth century the Balkan countries b ecame the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This has had important consequences for the way in which the region has been viewed since then, and the creation of this image has had an impact on the many aspects of West European and North American responses to the Balkans, ranging from diplomatic and military involvement to the burgeoning flow of tourists. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travellers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not only as travellers but also in the fields of medical and military service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did these travellers contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of women's horizons, and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for women in society in general.
Oct.-Dec., 1915
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Ralph Paget: a diplomat in Serbia
Author: Чедомир Антић
Publisher: Balkanološki institut SANU
ISBN: 8671790495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Publisher: Balkanološki institut SANU
ISBN: 8671790495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I
Author: Jon E. Lewis
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780337299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured, so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780337299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured, so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.
The Destruction of Serbia in 1915
Author: Charles Fryer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This text chronicles Serbian resistance to the Central Powers during the first 18 months of World War I. Based chiefly on official histories and an Admiralty file on the work of the British Naval Museum at Belgrade in 1914-1915, it also includes a diary by Admiral E.C.T. Troubridge, RN on the retreat of the Serbian army to the Adriatic Sea.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This text chronicles Serbian resistance to the Central Powers during the first 18 months of World War I. Based chiefly on official histories and an Admiralty file on the work of the British Naval Museum at Belgrade in 1914-1915, it also includes a diary by Admiral E.C.T. Troubridge, RN on the retreat of the Serbian army to the Adriatic Sea.
British women of the Eastern Front
Author: Angela K. Smith
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526100037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front. Their diaries, letters, memoirs and journalism are used to investigate the extraordinary role played by British women during the fall of Serbia, the Russian Revolution and the final push, and their role in reconstruction following the Armistice. These women, and their writings, are examined through the multiple lenses of gender, nationality, patriotism, imperialism and legacy, but the book also tells the stories of individuals, and will appeal across audiences to students, researchers and general readers. This is the first book to examine the war in the East through the eyes of British women and as such makes an important contribution to First World War Studies.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526100037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book explores the experiences of a range of women from the early days of 1914, through the big events of the war on the Eastern Front. Their diaries, letters, memoirs and journalism are used to investigate the extraordinary role played by British women during the fall of Serbia, the Russian Revolution and the final push, and their role in reconstruction following the Armistice. These women, and their writings, are examined through the multiple lenses of gender, nationality, patriotism, imperialism and legacy, but the book also tells the stories of individuals, and will appeal across audiences to students, researchers and general readers. This is the first book to examine the war in the East through the eyes of British women and as such makes an important contribution to First World War Studies.
The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere
Author: M. A. Stobart
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 936142131X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The book “Flaming sword in Serbia and elsewhere” is a travel guide memoir written by M.A. Stobart. The book represents the experience of Stobart as a Nurse of red cross Britain during world war 1, and mostly spending her time in Serbia. Through the book, she has comprehensively explained the harsh reality of war and consequences of devastation after the battle ends, damage to legal properties and wounded soldiers, and most serious the medical facilities provided to wounded soldier. She depicts her journey, how she interacted with Siberian people and soldiers, spotting light on their resilience and courage during all tough times of world war. The whole narrative of the book covers all major factors of cultural and political horizons of the regions. The book is quite interacting by reflecting the impact of war on Siberian people and their struggle. Overall the book provides a fascinating and genuine information of people indulge in world war directly and indirectly.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 936142131X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The book “Flaming sword in Serbia and elsewhere” is a travel guide memoir written by M.A. Stobart. The book represents the experience of Stobart as a Nurse of red cross Britain during world war 1, and mostly spending her time in Serbia. Through the book, she has comprehensively explained the harsh reality of war and consequences of devastation after the battle ends, damage to legal properties and wounded soldiers, and most serious the medical facilities provided to wounded soldier. She depicts her journey, how she interacted with Siberian people and soldiers, spotting light on their resilience and courage during all tough times of world war. The whole narrative of the book covers all major factors of cultural and political horizons of the regions. The book is quite interacting by reflecting the impact of war on Siberian people and their struggle. Overall the book provides a fascinating and genuine information of people indulge in world war directly and indirectly.
Principal Events, 1914-1918
Author: Great Britain. Committee of Imperial Defence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Appendix to pt. II, section II (A): Comarative list of the official names and dates of battles, &c., in France and Flanders: 27 fold. P. at end.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Appendix to pt. II, section II (A): Comarative list of the official names and dates of battles, &c., in France and Flanders: 27 fold. P. at end.
Yugoslavia in the British Imagination
Author: Samuel Foster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350114626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Despite Britain entering the 20th century as the dominant world power, public discourses were imbued with a cultural pessimism and rising social anxiety. Through this study, Samuel Foster explores how this changing domestic climate shaped perceptions of other cultures, and Britain's relationship to them, focusing on those Balkan territories that formed the first Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1941. Yugoslavia in the British Imagination examines these connections and demonstrates how the popular image of the region's peasantry evolved from that of foreign 'Other' to historical victim - suffering at the hand of modernity's worst excesses and symbolizing Britain's perceived decline. This coincided with an emerging moralistic sense of British identity that manifested during the First World War. Consequently, Yugoslavia was legitimized as the solution to peasant victimization and, as Foster's nuanced analysis reveals, enabling Britain's imagined (and self-promoted) revival as civilization's moral arbiter. Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival sources, this compelling transnational analysis is an important contribution to the study of British social history and the nature of statehood in the modern Balkans.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350114626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Despite Britain entering the 20th century as the dominant world power, public discourses were imbued with a cultural pessimism and rising social anxiety. Through this study, Samuel Foster explores how this changing domestic climate shaped perceptions of other cultures, and Britain's relationship to them, focusing on those Balkan territories that formed the first Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1941. Yugoslavia in the British Imagination examines these connections and demonstrates how the popular image of the region's peasantry evolved from that of foreign 'Other' to historical victim - suffering at the hand of modernity's worst excesses and symbolizing Britain's perceived decline. This coincided with an emerging moralistic sense of British identity that manifested during the First World War. Consequently, Yugoslavia was legitimized as the solution to peasant victimization and, as Foster's nuanced analysis reveals, enabling Britain's imagined (and self-promoted) revival as civilization's moral arbiter. Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival sources, this compelling transnational analysis is an important contribution to the study of British social history and the nature of statehood in the modern Balkans.
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description