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cover of Osiris, Volume 20: Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Osiris, Volume 20

Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Edited by Carola Sachse and Mark Walker

University of Chicago Press, 2005

Politics and Science in Wartime brings together a team of internationally known scholars who compare science and its practices in the Third Reich to that in other wartime nations. Their nuanced conclusions on topics ranging from scientific mobilization and purges to the ethics of scientific practice offer new perspectives on science under extreme political conditions.
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Over Here, Over There

Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I

Edited by William Brooks, Christina Bashford, and Gayle Magee

University of Illinois Press, 2019

During the Great War, composers and performers created music that expressed common sentiments like patriotism, grief, and anxiety. Yet music also revealed the complexities of the partnership between France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. At times, music reaffirmed a commitment to the shared wartime mission. At other times, it reflected conflicting views about the war from one nation to another or within a single nation. Over Here, Over There examines how composition, performance, publication, recording, censorship, and policy shaped the Atlantic allies' musical response to the war. The first section of the collection offers studies of individuals. The second concentrates on communities, whether local, transnational, or on the spectrum in-between. Essay topics range from the sinking of the Lusitania through transformations of the entertainment industry to the influenza pandemic. Contributors: Christina Bashford, William Brooks, Deniz Ertan, Barbara L. Kelly, Kendra Preston Leonard, Gayle Magee, Jeffrey Magee, Michelle Meinhart, Brian C. Thompson, and Patrick Warfield
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