Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia - Hardcover

David Monger; Katie Pickles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144386028X ISBN 13: 9781443860284

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Endurance was an inherent part of the First World War. The chapters in this collection explore the concept in New Zealand and Australia. Researchers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines address what it meant for New Zealanders and Australians to endure the First World War, and how the war endured through the Twentieth Century. Soldiers and civilians alike endured hardship, discomfort, fears and anxieties during the war. Officials and organisations faced unprecedented demands on their time and resources, while Maori, Australian Aborigines, Anglo-Indian New Zealanders and children sought their own ways to contribute and be acknowledged. Family-members in Australia and New Zealand endured uncertainty about their loved ones’ fates on distant shores. Once the war ended, different forms of endurance emerged as responses, memories, myths and memorials quickly took shape and influenced the ways in which New Zealanders and Australians understood the conflict. The collection is divided into the themes of Institutional Endurance, Home Front Endurance, Battlefield Endurance, Race and Endurance, and Memorials.

About this title

About the Author

David Monger is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Canterbury. His research, including Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale, explores the history of propaganda and national identities in the First World War. Sarah Murray is Curator Human History at Canterbury Museum. Her previous publications have focused on the history of the First World War as well as sport and identity in New Zealand. Katie Pickles is Associate-Professor of History at the University of Canterbury. She is the author of Transnational Outrage: The Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell and Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144386028X
• ISBN 13: 9781443860284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: David Monger, Katie Pickles