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Title Endurance and the First World War : experiences and legacies in New Zealand and Australia / edited by David Monger, Katie Pickles, Sarah Murray
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Contents Introduction / David Monger, Sarah Murray and Katie Pickles -- Endurance and First World War scholarship / David Monger -- "I get blamed for everything" : enduring the burdens of office : James Allen as Minister of Defence in 1915 / John Crawford -- Enduring charity : The Red Cross and war charity beyond the Great War / Margaret Tennant -- Seeing trauma as sacrifice : the link between "sentimental equipment" and endurance in New Zealand's war effort / Steven Loveridge -- Challenging enduring home front myths : jingoistic civilians and neglected soldiers / Gwen Parsons -- "What with the war [and] the epidemic, times are altogether troublesome" : agency and endurance in adolescent writings / Charlotte Bennett -- "I feel I can no longer endure" : families and the limits of commitment in Australia, 1914-19 / Bart Ziino -- Promotion, a poisoned chalice? / Paul O'Connor -- Antarcticans and the First World War / Katherine Moody -- Enduring memories : Samuel Hurst Seager and the New Zealand battlefield memorials of the Great War / Ian Lochhead -- Enduring silences, enduring prejudices : Australian Aboriginal participation in the First World War / Noah Riseman -- "An ideal life" : Anglo-Indians in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force / Jane McCabe -- Picturing the empire : enduring imperial perceptions and depictions in British First World War photographic propaganda / Gref Hynes -- Endurance, ephemerality and New Zealand's 1919 peace celebrations / Imelda Bargas -- The material of remembrance : their name liveth for evermore? / Kingsley Baird
Summary 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 ..
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Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, New Zealand
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian
World War, 1914-1918 -- New Zealand -- Psychological aspects
World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Psychological aspects
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence
First World War.
Australasian & Pacific history.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Military participation -- Australian
Psychological aspects
Australia
New Zealand
Form Electronic book
Author Monger, David, editor
Pickles, Katie, editor
Murray, Sarah, 1983- editor.
ISBN 9781443868389
1443868388