08425nam 22005892 450 991098450170332120250102111151.09789004711815900471181310.1163/9789004711815(MiAaPQ)EBC31747032(Au-PeEL)EBL31747032(CKB)36456015500041(OCoLC)1440217064(nllekb)BRILL9789004711815(EXLCZ)993645601550004120240912d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Great War and the Anthropocene Empire and Environment, Soldiers and Civilians on the Eastern Front /edited by Kerstin Susanne Jobst, Oksana Nagornaia and Kerstin von Lingen1st ed.Leiden ;Boston :Brill,2025.©20251 online resource (409 pages)Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024History of Warfare ;1489789004710115 9004710116 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyrights Informations -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Embattled Nature: Soldiers, Civilians, and Landscapes -- 1 Situating the Volume in the Field of Environmental History -- 2 Embattled Landscapes: Environmental and Spatial Lenses on Modern Military History -- 3 Structure of the Volume -- 4 Conclusion -- Part 1: Environment as the Battlefield -- 1 Contested Landscapes, Manifold Spaces: Analysing the Warscapes of the First World War -- 1 The Warscapes Model: Re-Reading the Spatiality of the First World War -- 2 First World War Landscapes -- 3 Conclusion: Warscapes in the Era of the Anthropocene -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 2 Logistics and Transformation of the Landscape for Mountain Warfare: the Plateaus -- 1 The Trentino Region in the New Strategic Situation after 1866 -- 2 The Fortress Region -- 3 Military and Civilians -- 3 Destruction of Nature through Warfare in (Austrian) Galicia during the First World War -- 4 Oil as a Resource and Element of Defence: the Cases of Galicia in 1915 and Romania in 1916 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Exploitation of Eastern European Oilfields before and during the First World War -- 3 Adoption of the "Scorched Earth" Tactic in 1915 in Galicia -- 4 The Entente and the Destruction of Oil Stocks in Romania -- 5 Outcomes of the Oil Destruction Missions -- Part 2: Environment and Public Health -- 5 Animal Fighters, Animal Victims: the Animal Dimension -- 1 Animal History or Animate History: Discussions about Animals in History -- 2 Animals in Military Spaces: the Epidemiological Threat -- 3 Horses on the Austro-Russian Front: Loss and Change of Stock under the Conditions of Military Operations -- 4 "Love of Animals" as a Prerequisite for Military Efficiency: Dogs on the Eastern Front.5 Humans and Animals in the Face of War: Verbal and Visual Reflections -- 6 Conclusion -- 6 "Dangerous Experiment" vs. "Great Blessing": Vaccination and Healthcare -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Disagreement on Health Care -- 3 Cholera and Cholera Vaccination: A Polarizing Issue -- 4 Internal Military Power Struggles and Medical Support -- 5 Vaccination as the Very Last Resort -- 6 Civilian Health: Something "Completely Different" -- 7 The Turn -- 8 Assessments from Today's Perspective -- 9 Conclusion -- 7 Macedonia as a Challenge to the Medical and Humanitarian Efforts of the Allied Armies -- 1 A "Guerre d'Orient" in Macedonia -- 2 Allied Sanitary Effort as a Tool of Influence -- 3 Controlling Evacuation, If Not Ensuring it -- 4 Conclusions: a Disruptive Environment -- Part 3: Belligerent Landscapes from the Victims' Perspective -- 8 City, Forts, and the San River-Przemyśl, 1914-15: Militarization -- 1 The Environment in the Event of War -- 2 Przemyśl in Austro-Hungarian War Planning -- 3 In the Middle of Enemy Territory -- 4 Actors and Sources -- 4.1 The Landscape -- 4.2 The Austro-Hungarian Army -- 4.3 The People and their Memoirs -- 5 Militarization of the Landscape -- 6 The First Siege -- 7 The Second Siege -- 8 Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- Archive Materials -- Published Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 9 Landscapes of the Eastern Front of the First World War in Narratives -- 1 The Statistical Dimension of the Refugee Question on the Eastern Front -- 2 Ethnic Characteristics of Refugees -- 3 Refugees in the War Landscapes on the Eastern Front -- 4 The Trials and Practices of Survival on the Road -- 5 Destruction and Refugees -- 6 Death and Burial around Refugees -- 7 Evacuation Survival Practices -- 8 Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature.10 Galician Landscapes through the Camera Lens: Visualizing Combat Spaces of the First World War -- 1 Practices of Natural Landscape Photography During the First World War: Historiographical Debates and Methodological Approaches -- 2 The Wartime Visual Travelogue: Galician Landscapes through the Photographic Lens -- 3 Visualizing the Trauma of Military Defeat -- 4 Industrial War through the Camera Lens: a Record of Destroyed Spaces -- 5 Conclusion -- Primary Sources (Photographic Material From the Archives): -- Secondary Literature: -- Part 4: Imperial Debris: Demilitarization of Landscapes in the Era of Imperial Collapse -- 11 Toxic Heritage of the War: Demilitarization of Eastern Front Landscapes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Battlefield Sanitation -- 3 The Effects of Gas Attacks on Fields and Forests -- 4 Demobilization of Animals -- 5 Conclusion -- 12 Conceptualizing the Post-Battle Landscape: the First World War -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transforming the Battlefield in Western Galicia: between Military Pragmatism and Imperial Enterprise -- 3 Creating a Commemorative Landscape for Fallen Soldiers -- 4 A Grand Monument to the Gorlice Victory -- 5 Conclusion: the Monument and Soldier's Grave as a New Element of the Cultural Landscape -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 13 First World War Memorialization in Ukrainian Lands (Late 1910s to 1930s) -- 1 Perpetuating the Memory of Fallen Soldiers during the War -- 2 Institutionalization of Memory in the Inter-War Period -- 2.1 The Ukrainian State and the Soviet Union -- 2.2 The First Czechoslovak Republic -- 2.3 The Kingdom of Romania -- 2.4 The Second Polish Republic -- 3 Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- 14 Conflict Landscapes at the Edge of Empire: Archaeology and Environment -- 1 A Traditional Routeway -- 2 The Great Arab Revolt Project (GARP) 2006-2014.3 Environment and the Revolt -- 3.1 Water -- 3.2 Trees and Wood -- 3.3 Health -- 4 Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover.This volume places the Eastern, especially the Austro-Russian, fronts of the Great War centre stage, examining the little-known environmental and spatial dimensions in the history of the war. The focus is particularly on the Austrian crown land of Galicia, which was transformed from a neglected periphery into a battleground of three imperial armies, and where for the first time, nature was a key protagonist. The book balances contributions by emerging and established scholars, and benefits from a multi-language approach, expertise in the field, and extensive archival research in national archives. Contributors are Hanna Bazhenova, Gustavo Corni, Iaroslav Golubinov, Kerstin Susanne Jobst, Tomasz Kargol, Alexandra Likhacheva, Oksana Nagornaia, David Novotny, Christoph Nübel, Gwendal Piégais, Andrea Rendl, Kamil Ruszała, Nicolas Saunders, Kerstin von Lingen, Yulia Zherdeva, and Liubov Zhvanko. See LessEarly Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.History of Warfare ;148.Empire and Environment, Soldiers and Civilians on the Eastern FrontWarHistoryWarHistory910.82Jobst Kerstin SusanneLingen Kerstin vonNagornaia OksanaNL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910984501703321The Great War and the Anthropocene4334207UNINA