The Great War and the Anthropocene Empire and Environment, Soldiers and Civilians on the Eastern Front
This volume places the Eastern, especially the Austro-Russian, fronts of the Great War centre stage, examining the little-known environmental and spatial dimensions in the history of the war. The focus is particularly on the Austrian crown land of Galicia, which was transformed from a neglected peri...
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| Médium: | E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Boston
Brill
2024
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| Edice: | History of Warfare |
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> Geschichte und Archäologie (N)
> Geschichte (NH)
> Europäische Geschichte (NHD)
Thema Klassifizierung
> Geschichte und Archäologie (N)
> Geschichte (NH)
> Militärgeschichte (NHW)
> Moderne Kriegsführung (NHWL)
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| ISBN: | 9004711813, 9789004710115, 9004710116, 9789004711815 |
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- 5 Humans and Animals in the Face of War: Verbal and Visual Reflections -- 6 Conclusion -- 6 "Dangerous Experiment" vs. "Great Blessing": Vaccination and Healthcare -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Disagreement on Health Care -- 3 Cholera and Cholera Vaccination: A Polarizing Issue -- 4 Internal Military Power Struggles and Medical Support -- 5 Vaccination as the Very Last Resort -- 6 Civilian Health: Something "Completely Different" -- 7 The Turn -- 8 Assessments from Today's Perspective -- 9 Conclusion -- 7 Macedonia as a Challenge to the Medical and Humanitarian Efforts of the Allied Armies -- 1 A "Guerre d'Orient" in Macedonia -- 2 Allied Sanitary Effort as a Tool of Influence -- 3 Controlling Evacuation, If Not Ensuring it -- 4 Conclusions: a Disruptive Environment -- Part 3: Belligerent Landscapes from the Victims' Perspective -- 8 City, Forts, and the San River-Przemyśl, 1914-15: Militarization -- 1 The Environment in the Event of War -- 2 Przemyśl in Austro-Hungarian War Planning -- 3 In the Middle of Enemy Territory -- 4 Actors and Sources -- 4.1 The Landscape -- 4.2 The Austro-Hungarian Army -- 4.3 The People and their Memoirs -- 5 Militarization of the Landscape -- 6 The First Siege -- 7 The Second Siege -- 8 Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- Archive Materials -- Published Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 9 Landscapes of the Eastern Front of the First World War in Narratives -- 1 The Statistical Dimension of the Refugee Question on the Eastern Front -- 2 Ethnic Characteristics of Refugees -- 3 Refugees in the War Landscapes on the Eastern Front -- 4 The Trials and Practices of Survival on the Road -- 5 Destruction and Refugees -- 6 Death and Burial around Refugees -- 7 Evacuation Survival Practices -- 8 Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature
- Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyrights Informations -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Embattled Nature: Soldiers, Civilians, and Landscapes -- 1 Situating the Volume in the Field of Environmental History -- 2 Embattled Landscapes: Environmental and Spatial Lenses on Modern Military History -- 3 Structure of the Volume -- 4 Conclusion -- Part 1: Environment as the Battlefield -- 1 Contested Landscapes, Manifold Spaces: Analysing the Warscapes of the First World War -- 1 The Warscapes Model: Re-Reading the Spatiality of the First World War -- 2 First World War Landscapes -- 3 Conclusion: Warscapes in the Era of the Anthropocene -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 2 Logistics and Transformation of the Landscape for Mountain Warfare: the Plateaus -- 1 The Trentino Region in the New Strategic Situation after 1866 -- 2 The Fortress Region -- 3 Military and Civilians -- 3 Destruction of Nature through Warfare in (Austrian) Galicia during the First World War -- 4 Oil as a Resource and Element of Defence: the Cases of Galicia in 1915 and Romania in 1916 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Exploitation of Eastern European Oilfields before and during the First World War -- 3 Adoption of the "Scorched Earth" Tactic in 1915 in Galicia -- 4 The Entente and the Destruction of Oil Stocks in Romania -- 5 Outcomes of the Oil Destruction Missions -- Part 2: Environment and Public Health -- 5 Animal Fighters, Animal Victims: the Animal Dimension -- 1 Animal History or Animate History: Discussions about Animals in History -- 2 Animals in Military Spaces: the Epidemiological Threat -- 3 Horses on the Austro-Russian Front: Loss and Change of Stock under the Conditions of Military Operations -- 4 "Love of Animals" as a Prerequisite for Military Efficiency: Dogs on the Eastern Front
- 3 Environment and the Revolt -- 3.1 Water -- 3.2 Trees and Wood -- 3.3 Health -- 4 Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover
- 10 Galician Landscapes through the Camera Lens: Visualizing Combat Spaces of the First World War -- 1 Practices of Natural Landscape Photography During the First World War: Historiographical Debates and Methodological Approaches -- 2 The Wartime Visual Travelogue: Galician Landscapes through the Photographic Lens -- 3 Visualizing the Trauma of Military Defeat -- 4 Industrial War through the Camera Lens: a Record of Destroyed Spaces -- 5 Conclusion -- Primary Sources (Photographic Material From the Archives): -- Secondary Literature: -- Part 4: Imperial Debris: Demilitarization of Landscapes in the Era of Imperial Collapse -- 11 Toxic Heritage of the War: Demilitarization of Eastern Front Landscapes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Battlefield Sanitation -- 3 The Effects of Gas Attacks on Fields and Forests -- 4 Demobilization of Animals -- 5 Conclusion -- 12 Conceptualizing the Post-Battle Landscape: the First World War -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transforming the Battlefield in Western Galicia: between Military Pragmatism and Imperial Enterprise -- 3 Creating a Commemorative Landscape for Fallen Soldiers -- 4 A Grand Monument to the Gorlice Victory -- 5 Conclusion: the Monument and Soldier's Grave as a New Element of the Cultural Landscape -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 13 First World War Memorialization in Ukrainian Lands (Late 1910s to 1930s) -- 1 Perpetuating the Memory of Fallen Soldiers during the War -- 2 Institutionalization of Memory in the Inter-War Period -- 2.1 The Ukrainian State and the Soviet Union -- 2.2 The First Czechoslovak Republic -- 2.3 The Kingdom of Romania -- 2.4 The Second Polish Republic -- 3 Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 14 Conflict Landscapes at the Edge of Empire: Archaeology and Environment -- 1 A Traditional Routeway -- 2 The Great Arab Revolt Project (GARP) 2006-2014