ABSTRACT
In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable.
It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
The Great War and the British Empire
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
The First World War and the cultural, political and environmental transformation of the British Empire
part II|88 pages
Imperial responses, identities and culture
chapter Chapter 5|22 pages
“We New Zealanders pride ourselves most of all upon loyalty to our Empire, our country, our flag”
chapter Chapter 7|10 pages
Imperial Austerlitz
part III|178 pages
Art, memory and forgetting