![]() ![]() Stapleton, No insignificant part: the Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War (Waterloo, ON, 2006) Edward Paice, World War I: the African front (New York, NY, 2008) Anne Samson, World War I in Africa: the forgotten conflict among the European powers (London, 2012) Elizabeth Wrangham, Ghana during the First World War: the colonial administration of Sir Hugh Clifford (Durham, NC, 2013) Michelle Moyd, Violent intermediaries: African soldiers, conquest, and everyday colonialism in German East Africa (Athens, OH, 2014) Hew Strachan's The First World War in Africa (Oxford, 2004) is a standalone section of To arms with a new introduction.ġ8 Charles J. Page, The Chiwaya War: Malawians and the First World War (Boulder, CO, 2000) Timothy J. Page, ed., Africa and the First World War (Basingstoke, 1987) Geoffrey Hodges, The Carrier Corps: military labour in the East African Campaign, 1914–1918 (New York, NY, 1986). Montoya, eds., Beyond 1917: the United States and the global legacies of the Great War (Oxford, 2017), focuses on US and to a lesser extent European foreign policy and internationalism.ġ4 See the special issue of the Journal of African History, 19 (1978) Melvin E. See Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Dyala Hamzah, and Ravi Ahuja, eds., The world in world wars: experiences, perceptions and perspectives from Africa and Asia (Leiden, 2010) Helmut Bley and Anorthe Kremers, eds., The world in the First World War (Mörlenbach, 2014) Maximilian Lakitsch, Susanne Reitmair-Juárez, and Katja Seidel, eds., Bellicose entanglements 1914: the Great War as a global war (Vienna, 2015) Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy, and Gearóid Barry, eds., 1916 in global context: an anti-imperial moment (Abingdon, 2018) Stefan Rinke and Michael Wildt, eds., Revolutions and counter-revolutions: 1917 and its aftermath from a global perspective (Frankfurt, 2017) Ana Paula Pires, María Inés Tato, and Jan Schmidt, eds., The global First World War: African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian mediators (Milton, 2021). It argues that these approaches can offer an important corrective to common assumptions that the First World War led to a dramatic break with pre-war globalizing trends.Ģ It is telling that there have been far more edited volumes than monographs on the global war. ![]() ![]() It then suggests that new global histories of the First World War give further attention to its economic aspects, particularly in two ways: first, by recovering understudied global financial aspects of the war, including the effects of the 1914 financial crisis and wartime inflation on economies and societies far outside of Europe and second, by investigating wartime histories of primary production, both in colonial territories and sovereign states in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It first considers how, over the last decade, there has been a move to emphasize the war's imperial dimensions: in reconsiderations of the war in Africa, the experience of soldiers and workers from across Europe's colonial empires, and the German ‘global strategy’ of fomenting unrest within the Allied empires. This historiographical review offers an overview of new approaches to the global history of the First World War. ![]()
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