The Great War

History 1040

Week #10

November2:

As part of our discussion on the "Mobilization and the State," we will examine the expansion of the state's role in the economy and the social health of society through a comparative analysis of the British and German Experiences.

November 4:

In this class we will discuss the impact of the war on the working classes of England, France and Germany during the Great War. We will focus on

• class issues

• economic deprivation

• economic improvement

• health and welfare

• the merger of the industrial working class with industrial warfare

Readings for November 10: Focus next week is on in the Great War and Women.

• PowerPoints:

  • Review this PowerPoint

    WWI women

    View more documents from cinbarnsley.

     

• View video on Courseweb of the "Canary Girls"

• Gail Braybon in Strachan, First World War, pp. 148-62

• Marwick Women, Welfare and Children, pp. 113-119. on Courseweb under Course Documents

• ON E-Reserves:

  • Steven C. Hause, “More Minerva than Mars: The French Women’s Rights Campaign and the First World War,” in Margaret Higonnet et al. (eds.),  from Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1987), pp. 99-113 (on e-reserves)

• Women and the Military during World War One - BBC Site

• PBS Resources:- All very brief - but very helpful.

  • Women and the vote in Britain - Diane Atkinson

  • British Suffragettes - Diane Atkinson

  • Women and War Work - Laura Downs

  • Women's Contribution to the War Effort- Gail Braybon

Recommended but not required:

1. Women in the Great War - Excellent Resource on Women's contribution in the Great War.

2. Women in the War - Contemporary material on "The contribution of the fair sex" in the Great War.

3. Middle Class Women in the Great War:

   • http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways/users/pathways/paths/2xkoyv/viewer/1

4. Online Resources:

   1. Sylvia Pankhurst - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

   2. Maria Bochkareva

   3. Kati Dadeshkeliani

   4. Women of the Great War - Slide show

Readings for November 12:  Which change in gender roles? Comparing women’s experiences

• On E-Reserves:

  • Alfred G. Meyer, "The Impact of World War I on Russian Women’s Lives," Russia’s Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press), pp. 208-24 (on e-reserves)