04190nam 2200781 a 450 991081043920332120230126205025.00-8147-4840-60-8147-4905-410.18574/9780814749050(CKB)2670000000151352(EBL)865632(OCoLC)778459079(SSID)ssj0000639246(PQKBManifestationID)11354428(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639246(PQKBWorkID)10598619(PQKB)11648660(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323797(MiAaPQ)EBC865632(MdBmJHUP)muse19843(DE-B1597)547679(DE-B1597)9780814749050(Au-PeEL)EBL865632(CaPaEBR)ebr10535664(OCoLC)1047742632(EXLCZ)99267000000015135220111004d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOf little comfort war widows, fallen soldiers, and the remaking of nation after the Great War /Erika KuhlmanNew York New York University Pressc20121 online resource (236 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-4839-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.An Army of Widows -- Trostlose Stunden : German War Widows -- The War Widows' Romance : Victory and Loss in the United States -- The Transnationalization of Soldiers, Widows, and War Relief -- "The Other Trench" : Remarriage, Pronatalism, and the Rebirthing of the Nation -- Epilogue.During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europe’s cities were a constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale. But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war’s fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses in how nations crafted their identities in the interwar era. In this extremely original study, Erika Kuhlman compares the ways in which German and American widows experienced their postwar status, and how that played into the cultures of mourning in their two nations: one defeated, the other victorious. Each nation used widows and war dead as symbols to either uphold their victory or disengage from their defeat, but Kuhlman, parsing both German and U.S. primary sources, compares widows’ lived experiences to public memory. For some widows, government compensation in the form of military-style awards sufficed. For others, their own deprivations, combined with those suffered by widows living in other nations, became the touchstone of a transnational awareness of the absurdity of war and the need to prevent it.World War, 1914-1918WomenlatNLIWar widowsGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory20th centurylatNLIWar widowsGovernment policyGermanyHistory20th centurylatNLIWar widowsGovernment policyWestern countriesHistory20th centurylatNLIWorld War, 1914-1918Social aspectsUnited StateslatNLIWorld War, 1914-1918Social aspectsGermanylatNLINationalismHistory20th centurylatNLITransnationalismHistory20th centurylatNLIUnited StatesSocial conditions1918-1932latNLIGermanySocial conditions1918-1933latNLIWorld War, 1914-1918Women.War widowsGovernment policyHistoryWar widowsGovernment policyHistoryWar widowsGovernment policyHistoryWorld War, 1914-1918Social aspectsWorld War, 1914-1918Social aspectsNationalismHistoryTransnationalismHistory940.3/1Kuhlman Erika A.1961-1701105MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810439203321Of little comfort4084615UNINA