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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2025.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
History of Warfare ; 148. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866238106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 3 Environment and the Revolt
- 3.1 Water
- 3.2 Trees and Wood
- 3.3 Health
- 4 Conclusion
- Index
- Back Cover.
