International Encyclopedia of the First World War

The Dominion of Canada automatically went to war in August 1914 when Britain did…

This essay organizes its discussion of soldiers’ reactions to war into three sec…

This paper explores Canada’s response to the Great War centenary of 2014-2018, s…

Some 70,000 Canadians died while in military service during the First World War,…

The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa …

In 1917, with tens of thousands of Canadian soldiers killed and wounded, the end…

This article examines the shifting nature of Canadian federal politics during th…

Canada’s historiography of the First World War has tended to emphasize the war a…

Policymakers in the British Dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Ze…

How did Canada, as a self-governing country within the British Empire, deal with…

Canadian labour’s position at the beginning of the First World War was weak in r…

In the years leading up to the Great War, Canadian military planning was driven …

Critical analysis of Canada’s recruitment for the war effort can be grouped arou…

Canada’s overseas military forces fought in the Great War under British Army com…

Canada’s large-scale contribution to the Great War generated wartime pride and p…

The Canadian casualty figures are difficult to determine in part because of inco…

Canadian women responded to and experienced the Great War in ways ranging from p…

World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …

A minority section of the women’s movements opposed World War I and organized th…

This article offers a brief survey of the Canadian-born newspaper baron, Max Ait…

Whether on the Western or Eastern Front, by German, French, British, Canadian, A…

In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …

Soldiers’ attitudes towards the Great War are a controversial issue, as they pro…

The centenary events surrounding the First World War have produced a significant…

Libraries (local, specialist, and national) contributed in numerous and importan…

The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…

Mass conscription recast relationships in families, raised minors’ potential as …

The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…

This article examines the First World War’s ecological impact and shows that pro…

Throughout history, intoxicants were an important part of the war experience. Th…

One sees a wide range of political regimes from a democratic republic with unive…

What role do representations of the First World War play in media that reach a w…

There is an ongoing debate among historians whether the First World War did in f…

This essay offers a comparative survey of the practice of military justice among…

Change and continuity marked belligerent societies’ norms and values during the …

This article describes the lives and afterlives of the First World War museums i…

The First World War created disfigured and mutilated bodies on a grand scale. Ne…

The First World War represents a watershed in the history of war photography. It…

The paper describes the impact of war on peasantry and its mobilisation in the w…

The military service of teachers and the mobilization of schoolchildren for volu…

A vast array of initiatives designed to counteract the destructiveness of the Fi…

In nations where literacy was well-established by 1914, letter-writing was criti…

It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…

This article explores women’s economic, social, and political responses to the F…

Female war reporters from belligerent and neutral countries were present in the …