The Great War

History 1040

Week #10

1 November

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.

3 November:

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

READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK:

Focus next week is on in the Great War and Women.

8 November

• PowerPoints:

  • Go to Courseweb - Powerpoints - Women and the Great War

  • Review this PowerPoint

    WWI women

    View more documents from cinbarnsley.

     

• View video on Courseweb of the "Canary Girls"

Read:

• 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

• 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)