Teaching Representations Of The First World War eBook

The First World War saw staggering loss of life and was a catalyst for many political and social changes. It was also shaped by the media and art forms that expressed it: film, photography, poetry, memoir, posters, advertisements, and music.

This volume''s scope shows that today''s instructors contend with many different issues in teaching the First World War in a variety of classroom settings. Among these issues are the war''s relation to modernism; global reach in the Middle East and South Asia; influence on psychiatry, pacifism, and consumer culture; and effect on public health and the 1918 influenza pandemic.