LEADER 04251nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910460977103321 005 20211025174549.0 010 $a0-8147-4840-6 010 $a0-8147-4905-4 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814749050 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151352 035 $a(EBL)865632 035 $a(OCoLC)778459079 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000639246 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354428 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000639246 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10598619 035 $a(PQKB)11648660 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865632 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19843 035 $a(DE-B1597)547679 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814749050 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10535664 035 $a(OCoLC)1047742632 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151352 100 $a20111004d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOf little comfort$b[electronic resource] $ewar widows, fallen soldiers, and the remaking of nation after the Great War /$fErika Kuhlman 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4839-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAn 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. 330 $aDuring 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. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xWomen$9lat$2NLI 606 $aWar widows$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century$9lat$2NLI 606 $aWar widows$xGovernment policy$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century$9lat$2NLI 606 $aWar widows$xGovernment policy$zWestern countries$xHistory$y20th century$9lat$2NLI 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$9lat$2NLI 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects$zGermany$9lat$2NLI 606 $aNationalism$xHistory$y20th century$9lat$2NLI 606 $aTransnationalism$xHistory$y20th century$9lat$2NLI 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1918-1932$9lat$2NLI 607 $aGermany$xSocial conditions$y1918-1933$9lat$2NLI 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xWomen. 615 7$aWar widows$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 7$aWar widows$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 7$aWar widows$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 7$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects 615 7$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xSocial aspects 615 7$aNationalism$xHistory 615 7$aTransnationalism$xHistory 676 $a940.3/1 700 $aKuhlman$b Erika A.$f1961-$01042363 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460977103321 996 $aOf little comfort$92466544 997 $aUNINA