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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information Capital Cities at War A Cultural History Second volume of a two-volume pioneering comparative history of the capital cities of Britain, France, and Germany during the Great War. Leading historians explore these wartime cities, from the railway stations where newcomers took on new identities to the streets they surveyed and the pubs, cafes, and theatres they frequented, and examine notions of identity, the sites and the rituals of city life, and wartime civic and popular culture. The volume offers the first comparative cultural history of London, Paris, and Berlin and reveals the great affinities and similarities between cities on both sides of the line. It shows the transnational character of metropolitan life and the different cultural resources which the men and women of these cities drew upon during 1,500 days of war. The practices of metropolitan life go well beyond national histories and this volume suggests the outlines of a fully European history of the Great War. JAY WINTER is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He is a specialist on the First World War and its impact on the twentieth century. His numerous publications include 1914–1918. The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (1998), and, with Antoine Prost, The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (2006). JEAN- LOUIS ROBERT is Emeritus Professor of History at Universite´ Paris I Panthe´on-Sorbonne. He has edited, with Jay Winter, Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914–1919 (1997) and, with Antoine Prost and Chris Wrigley, The Emergence of European Trade Unionism (2004). © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare General Editor Jay Winter, Yale University Advisory Editors Omer Bartov, Brown University Carol Gluck, Columbia University David M. Kennedy, Stanford University Paul Kennedy, Yale University Antoine Prost, Universite´de Paris-Sorbonne Emmanuel Sivan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert Wohl, University of California, Los Angeles In recent years the field of modern history has been enriched by the exploration of two parallel histories. These are the social and cultural history of armed conflict, and the impact of military events on social and cultural history. Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare presents the fruits of this growing area of research, reflecting both the colonization of military history by cultural historians and the reciprocal interest of military historians in social and cultural history, to the benefit of both. The series offers the latest scholarship in European and non-European events from the 1850s to the present day. For a list of titles in the series, please see end of book. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information Capital Cities at War Paris, London, Berlin 1914–1919 Volume 2 A Cultural History Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sa˜o Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521870436 # Cambridge University Press 2007 This publication is in copyright. 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First published 2007 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-521-87043-6 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information Contents List of figures page vii Acknowledgements ix Foreword: a note on authorship xi 1 The practices of metropolitan life in wartime JAY WINTER, YALE UNIVERSITY 1 Part I Cityscapes 21 2 Railway stations: gateways and termini ADRIAN GREGORY, PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD 23 3 The street EMMANUELLE CRONIER, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – I 57 4 Entertainments JAN RU¨ GER, BIRKBECK COLLEGE, LONDON 105 Part II Civic culture 141 5 Exhibitions STEFAN GOEBEL, UNIVERSITY OF KENT 143 6 Schools STEFAN GOEBEL, UNIVERSITY OF KENT 188 7 Universities ELIZABETH FORDHAM, ECOLE DES HAUTES E´ TUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES, PARIS 235 8 Public space, political space JON LAWRENCE, EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 280 v © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information vi Table of contents Part III Sites of passage/rites of passage 313 9 The home and family life CATHERINE ROLLET, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – XII 315 10 Hospitals JAY WINTER, YALE UNIVERSITY 354 11 Religious sites and practices ADRIAN GREGORY, PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD ANNETTE BECKER, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – X 383 12 Cemeteries CARINE TREVISAN, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – VII ELISE JULIEN, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – I / FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN 428 13 Conclusion JAY WINTER, YALE UNIVERSITY JEAN- LOUIS ROBERT, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS – I 468 Bibliography 482 Index 528 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information Figures 5.1. The ‘Iron Hindenburg’ depicted on a contemporary postcard: an airship flies over Ko¨nigsplatz. [Private postcard collection, ‘Der ‘‘Eiserne Hindenburg’’ auf dem Ko¨nigsplatz in Berlin nach der Enthu¨llung’, 1915.] page 153 5.2. Tank bank in Trafalgar Square: a wounded officer pictured as the purchaser of the first bond. Imperial War Museum (IWM), Photograph Archive, Q. 54248, ‘Sale of war bonds from the tank in Trafalgar Square. A wounded officer buying the first bond’, November 1917. 158 5.3. Exhibition of war photographs at the Imperial War Museum: a child allegedly identifies a relative: ‘A child recognizes a relative among war photographs in Photographic Galleries at 10 Coventry Street’, n.d. [IWM, Photograph Archive, Q. 31176.] 170 6.1. Wartime certificate for attendance and good conduct issued by the Education Committee of the London County Council, 1915. [London Metropolitan Archives, LCC/EO/PS/11/2/106, Certificate for good conduct, industry, and attendance, 1915.] 198 6.2. The war as imagined by a pupil of a Berlin municipal school. This drawing was on display in the exhibition ‘School and War’ at the Central Institute of Education and Teaching, Berlin. [Schule und Krieg. Sonderausstellung im Zentralinstitut fu¨r Erziehung und Unterricht Berlin (Berlin, 1915), fig. 14.] 204 6.3. Pupils of a Berlin intermediate school collecting woollens and metals, 1915. This picture was part of the exhibition ‘School and War’ at the Central Institute of Education and Teaching, Berlin. [Schule und Krieg. Sonderausstellung vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information viii List of figures im Zentralinstitut fu¨r Erziehung und Unterricht Berlin (Berlin, 1915), fig. 9.] 219 6.4. Children inspecting captured German guns exhibited in the Mall, London. [IWM, Photograph Archive, Q. 31245, ‘Captured German guns exhibited in the Mall, London’, n.d.] 229 10.1. Picture postcard by Fred Spurgin, ‘‘ ‘Tho’ still in the ‘Blue’ – I’m glad you’re in the pink!’ ’’ 361 10.2. Lieutenant-Corporal J. H. Dowd, ‘Our Afternoon Excursion’, Gazette of the Third London General Hospital (October 1916), p. 19. 362 10.3. ‘Hospital Fashions: ‘‘The Bond Street Cut’’’ – from the 3rd L.G.H. Style Book for 1916, Gazette of the Third London General Hospital (March 1916), p. 152. 363 10.4. ‘Hospital Fashions: ‘‘The Guardsman Cut’’ ’ – from the 3rd L.G.H. Style Book for 1916, Gazette of the Third London General Hospital (June 1916), p. 228. 364 10.5. ‘As a lamb to the SLAUGHTER’, Gazette of the Third London General Hospital (January 1917), p. 98. 370 10.6. ‘The Automatic Bed-making and Patient-washing Apparatus’, Gazette of the Third London General Hospital (December 1916), p. 72. 376 10.7. Plan of the ‘curative workshops’ at Shepherd’s Bush in D. H. Eade (ed.), Organisation and Methods of the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, Shepherd’s Bush, London W. (London: n.p., c. 1918), p. 48. 377 12.1. ‘Sketch plan of Cenotaph area today’, The Times, 11 November 1920. 463 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87043-6 - Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2 Edited by Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert Frontmatter More information Acknowledgements This, the second volume of our study of capital cities in wartime, took eight years to complete.