Formal evolution and content in Asturian newspapers. From World War One to the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship

Between 1914 and 1923, and in general during the 1910s and 1920s, important changes occurred in the Asturian press that can be seen, for example, in the type of dailies which achieved certain readership levels. The form and number of pages evolved, images became more common, so-called citizen journalism was more freely practised, and there was a trend -when there was an opportunity- towards publishing articles which involved the author travelling to distant lands. Simultaneously, the consideration of sport as a show and the treatment given to other content both helped outline a new media scenario.

Writing disenchantment: British First World War Prose, 1914-30.

This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The objects of disenchantment are often the very same as the enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social critics, theorists and commentators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provide a rich and previously unexplored context for wartime and post-war literature. The rise of the disenchanted narrative to its predominance in the War Books Boom of 1928 – 1930 is charted from the turn of the century in texts, archival material, sales and review data. Rarely-studied popular and middlebrow novels are analysed alongside well-known highbrow texts: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells and Rebecca West rub shoulders with forgotten figures such as Gilbert Frankau and Ernest Raymond. These sometimes jarring juxtapositions show the strained relationship between enchantment and disenchantment in the war and the post-war decade.

Unidentified nurses and injured World War I soldiers celebrating with champagne and flowers Portraits Groups

Handwritten correspondence on verso covered over with pasted black paper

Portrait of Leo Baeck as military chaplain Military; World War I; Portraits

Digital Image

Leo Baeck with unidentified soldiers Military; World War I; Portraits Groups

Center May 2000

Herman Sommerfeld, German Jewish World War I pilot, seated in an airplane Portraits Men

Signed by photographer bottom left

Studio portrait of Benno Strauss in military uniform after being drafted to fight on the front during World War I at the age of thirty-nine.

Father of Herbert Strauss

Destroyed Railroad Wagon in Mero Laburcz Military; World War I

Bernhard Bardach World War I Album I

Street Scenes; Krasnick Military; World War I

World War I Album II

World War I military portraits of Arthur Neustadt.

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Military portraits of Erich Gustav Baum as a solider during World War I Portraits Men

Includes photographs of Erich Gustav Baum with a bicycle, with other unidentified soliders, and wearing an Iron Cross

Max Weber and the First World War: Protestant and Catholic living standards in Germany, 1915-1919

We assess informal institutions of Protestants and Catholics by investigating their economic
resilience in a natural experiment. The First World War constitutes an exogenous shock to living standards since the duration and intensity of the war exceeded all expectations. We assess the ability of Protestant and Catholic communities to cope with increasing food prices and wartime black markets. Literature based on Weber (1904, 1905) suggests that Protestants must be more resilient than their Catholic peers. Using individual height data on some 2,800 Germans to assess levels of malnutrition during the war, we find that living standards for both Protestants and Catholics declined; however, the decrease of Catholics’ height was disproportionately large. Our empirical analysis finds a large statistically significant difference between Protestants and Catholics for the 1914-19 birth cohort, and we argue that this height gap cannot be attributed to socioeconomic background and fertility alone.

The era of the second world war.

Explica las causas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, los orígenes del conflicto, la tensión, el miedo y los terribles sufrimientos provocados por el Holocausto, así como, los efectos de la guerra en las personas y en las naciones, en ese mismo momento, y en el período posterior de recosntrucción. Cumple con los requisitos del curriculo nacional inglés en cuanto a la utilización de una amplia gama de fuentes de información y de puntos de vista, que permite el desarrollo en los alumnos de capacidades para el análisis y para formar sus propios juicios históricos.

The world re-made : the results of the First World War.

En 1918 finalizó la Primera Guerra Mundial y a partir de este momento, se inician las negociaciones para elaborar unos tratados de paz, que preparen la reorganización de Europa. El autor muestra cómo los años 1919-1925 son de una frágil paz e invita a los lectores a un juego de simulación en el que, representando a los estadistas de la época establezcan sus propios acuerdos de paz. Incluye fragmentos de fuentes históricas originales, así como, material de aprendizaje activo: ejercicios, preguntas, y pruebas.