Tuesday: Changes at Home
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Read: - Secondary Sources: - Krisztina Robert, “Constructions of ‘Home,’ ‘Front,’ and Women’s Military Employment in First-World-War Britain: A Spatial Interpretation,” History and Theory 52, no. 3 (2013): 319–43. - Primary Sources: - A union objects to the employment of women drivers (1917) - A London woman’s account of a munitions factory (1916)
Thursday: Instability and Hardship
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Read: - Secondary Sources: - Gerhard Senft, “Resistance Against the War of 1914-1918,” in 1914, ed. G�nter Bischof et al., vol. 23, Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I (University of New Orleans Press, 2014), https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1n2txft.12. - Primary Sources: - “A British pamphlet urging self-rationing (1916),” Alpha History - “A London woman’s account of a munitions factory (1916),” Alpha History