Le premier conflit mondial qui met fin à l’après-midi doré de l’époque édouardienne signe l’entrée du Royaume-Uni dans le XXe siècle politique et esthétique. La place unique qu’occupe la Grande Guerre dans l’imaginaire collectif britannique participe de l’engouement populaire que suscite encore aujourd’hui la war poetry, devenue un véritable « lieu de mémoire » textuel. Son importance dans le paysage culturel britannique paraît dès lors démesurée par rapport à la place qu’elle occupe dans le canon poétique du XXe siècle. À la fois conservatrice et innovante, respectueuse des formes mais sujette à l’expérimentation, l’œuvre des war poets, souvent confondue avec celle des Georgian poets, se range du côté des modernes plutôt que des modernistes. Poésie de circonstance définie par le moment et le lieu d’écriture, elle est jugée à l’aune de la problématique moderne de l’œuvre « impure », poésie tournée vers la révélation de l’événement plutôt que vers l’acte de création. C’est cette tension entre l’appel du monde et l’appel du texte qui fonde la définition générique, esthétique et éthique de la war poetry. Son intérêt critique réside dans sa double finalité, son hybridité tonale, générique et formelle, sa nature composite et polymorphe qui l’inscrivent de plain-pied dans le registre de la dissonance, propre à la poésie moderne. / By putting an end to the golden Edwardian afternoon, the First World War propelled Britain into the political and aesthetic twentieth century. Owing to the unique place occupied by the Great War in the collective British mind, war poetry represents today a highly popular textual “realm of memory”. However, its relevance in Britain’s cultural landscape does not correspond to its status within the poetic canon of the twentieth century. Both conservative and innovative, intent on codified forms yet experimental in nature, often confused with Georgian Poetry, war poetry leans towards the modern rather than the modernist definition of poetry. As a form of occasional writing, determined by the place and time from which it sprung, war poetry is judged according to the modern standards of “impure poetry”, more focused on the revelation of the event than on the act of creation itself. It is the contradictory claims of world and text that found the generic, aesthetic and ethical definition of war poetry. Its critical interest resides in its dual purpose, its tonal, generic and formal hybridity, its complex and changing nature, which firmly inscribe it within the modern poetics.

The main research topic of our study is the issue of re-emigration and repatriation movements into Czechoslovakia after the First World War and the Second World War, in terms of comparative analysis. The study focuses on Czechoslovak executive institutions as key actors of migration movements. It analyzes their competence, financial possibilities and the objectives they pursued by promoting migration. The first part of this study defines the concept of migration and incorporates it into the postwar concept. The study also focuses on migrants (in our case re-emigrants and repatriants) and their efforts to return in Czechoslovakia. The central part contains analysis of the three most important executive state institutions - Ministry of Welfare, Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These ministries carried out specific re-emigration and repatriation projects. Our study also draws attention to concepts of "home law" and "citizenship". These two concepts are compared in the third part, from the perspective of executive institutions. This part analyzes the whole process of allocation of citizenship in postwar periods. Our study seeks to answer the questions of what event initiated re-emigration and repatriation processes and what were the intentions of the involved participants. The...

La confrontation des soldats marocains avec la violence est un phénomène qui s’inscrit dans le temps. Elle a pris des formes multiples alors que les soldats marocains combattaient sous le drapeau français et les questions liées aux traumatismes de guerre sont devenues assez récemment un réel enjeu de société. Or de ce point de vue les soldats marocains sous domination française (protectorat) offrent un terrain d’enquête jusqu’à présent peu traité au Maroc et en France. Pourtant, de 1914 à 1954, ces soldats marocains, notamment très présents en Indochine, ont subi les conséquences de l’expérience de la violence de guerre sur leur psyché. Nous avons cherché à saisir et interpréter leur comportement en insistant sur la période de l’après Deuxième Guerre Mondiale.Pour comprendre les tensions vécues en Indochine par les combattants marocains, il fut nécessaire de situer tout d’abord le combattant dans sa conjoncture socioculturelle et dans la série des expériences militaires vécues avant la guerre d’Indochine (Grande Guerre et la Seconde Guerre mondiale) sur la base des sources d’archives (militaires, diplomatiques, médicales) et de l’évaluation des approches psychiatriques et médicales de l’époque. Pour l’après-1945 le travail est enrichi par une collecte triple (témoignages, récits de vie, et sémiologie post-traumatique) auprès de quelques anciens combattants. Ainsi l’impact psychologique lié à violence de guerre sur quarante ans d’expérience au sein de l’armée d’Afrique (1914-1954) a pu être cerné de façon nouvelle puisqu’une partie des observations permises par la confrontation à des anciens combattants a une portée certaine pour l’époque antérieure à leur engagement.Tout ce qui relève de pathologies psychologiques ou psychiatriques, notamment durant la guerre d’Indochine, a été analysé et a permis de réévaluer les voies suivies par ces soldats, qui vont jusqu’à la désertion et le passage à l’ennemi vietnamien ou encore des coups de folie meurtriers ou suicidaires, et d’éclairer le rapport au politique de ces hommes pris entre des causes qui n’étaient pas les leurs. Pour le cas de l’Indochine, certains d’entre eux ont vécu cette guerre comme l’expérience d’un lieu d’affirmations idéologiques. L’exil du roi Mohamed V les amena parfois à rejoindre la résistance indochinoise. D’autres soldats, faits prisonniers par le Viet-Minh, ont été bouleversés par l’expérience de la captivité.Cette thèse éclaire ainsi le rapport à l’engagement dans l’armée coloniale, le rapport aux violences subies et données, et offre une interprétation des comportements constatés qui montre le fonctionnement discontinu du rapport au religieux, l’impact des traumas sur la capacité de remémoration et de tissage des rapports sociaux après les guerres. Ceci éclaire sous un nouvel angle les sources d’archive disponibles sur ces soldats marocains de l’Armée d’Afrique et la façon dont les violences ont pesé sur eux. Cette recherche amène à penser que la mise à l’écart des dimensions traumatiques — au profit de l’héroïsme le plus souvent — dans les décennies qui ont suivi l’ère du protectorat a produit un effacement qui a faussé en partie la perception de l’histoire vécue par ces combattants / The confrontation of the Moroccan soldiers with violence is a phenomenon that inscribes itself in the time. It took many forms as Moroccan soldiers fought under the French flag, and issues related to war trauma became a real social issue quite recently. From this point of view, Moroccan soldiers under French rule (protectorate) offer a field of investigation hitherto little treated in Morocco and France. However, from 1914 to 1954, these Moroccan soldiers, particularly present in Indochina, suffered from the consequences of the experience of war violence on their psyche. We sought to interpret their behaviour.To understand the tensions experienced in Indochina by the Moroccan fighters, it was necessary to first, locate the fighter in his socio-cultural situation and in the series of military experiences lived before the Indochina war (Great War and World War II) based on archival sources (military, diplomatic, medical) and the evaluation of psychiatric and medical approaches of the time. For post-1945, work is enriched by a triple collection (testimonials, life stories, and post-traumatic semiology) with some veterans. Thus, the psychological impact linked to wartime violence over forty years of experience in the African army (1914-1954) could be identified in a new way.All that pertains to psychological or psychiatric pathologies, especially during the Indochina war, was analysed and allowed to re-evaluate the tracks followed by these soldiers, who go as far as desertion and the passage to the Vietnamese enemy or murderous or suicidal feats of madness, and to enlighten the relation to politics of these men caught between causes which were not theirs. In the case of Indochina, some of them experienced this war as the experience of a place of ideological affirmations. The exile of King Mohamed V sometimes led them to join the Indochinese resistance. Other soldiers, taken prisoner by the Viet-Minh, were upset by the experience of captivity.This thesis emphasises the relation to the commitment in the colonial army, the relation to the violence suffered and given, and offers an interpretation of the observed behaviours, which shows the discontinuous functioning of the relation with the religious, the impact of the traumas on the ability to remembrance and weaving of social relationships after wars. This sheds new light on the available archive sources of these Moroccan soldiers of the Army of Africa and the way the violence has weighed on them. This research suggests that sidelining this dimension in the decades following the protectorate era has produced an erosion that has partially distorted the perception of the story of these fighters

Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts Department of Political Science Political Science, PhD. Program Andrea Baršová The Emancipation of Women, the First World War and the Czechoslovak National Revolution of 1918/1919 PhD. Thesis Supervisor: Doc. PhDr. Ing. Ondřej Císař, PhD. 2015 Abstract This thesis deals with the enfranchisement of women during the Czechoslovak national revolution of 1918/1919, a topic that has so far remained little researched. It explores most important contexts and conditions which framed the process. These are the Czech, Austrian and international female suffrage movements, the mutual relations of the Czech women's emancipation movement with political parties, including the progressive incorporation of women's rights and agendas in party programmes, and the profound impacts of the First World War on gender relations both in private and public spheres. This paper defends the following theses. 1) The women's protest movement, which demanded peace, justice and national self-determination and also called for female suffrage and the equality of women, formed a specific aspect of the social protest movement and the Czechoslovak national revolution of 1918/1919. Through the protest, Czech women's activists and suffragists took a part in the factual enfranchisement of women during...

The thesis analyses the reflection of the Czechoslovak freedom movement within the English and American daily press during the World War I (1914 - 1918). In its theoretical part the thesis provides the chronological framework of the Czechoslovak movement and discusses its main challenges as well as essential milestones and achievements. It also introduces the reader to the most popular theoretical concepts regarding the idea of the Czech national independence existing at the brink of the war. With regard to the historical perspective the thesis also elaborates on the development and timeline of Masaryk's exile endeavour as well as personal relations, the latter contributing greatly in promoting the Czechoslovak cause abroad. In its analytical part the thesis deals with the sample of media articles related to the issue of Czechoslovaks and their pursuits. Using the qualitative approach it reconstructs the media frameworks through which the theme of the Czechoslovaks was presented and interpreted in a variety of British and American dailies during the Great War. Besides the daily press it also builds its findings upon the historical literature, archival documents and correspondence. Focusing on the identified media frameworks the thesis strives to identify themes, ideas, concepts and arguments that...

This dissertation studies the First World War South African campaign in German South West Africa from 1914 until 1915. The campaign was characterised by the high mobility of the Union’s mounted soldiers which enabled swift advances and rapid envelopments. The German forces applied a defensive strategy relying on the lack of water and remoteness of the terrain to deter and prolong the Union’s invasion. The German force also relied on internal lines of communication to concentrate its forces on the Union’s advancing columns. The Union Defence Forces’s numbered approximately 50 000 compared to the German force of about 7 000. The campaign culminated on 9 July 1915 with the surrender of almost the entire German fighting force intact. This study analyses whether the victory can be attributed to the Union Defence Forces’s numerical superiority or the operational strategy and tactics which were applied during the campaign. It is argued that this operational strategy is congruent with the modern theory of manoeuvre warfare and that the campaign is therefore a textbook example of manoeuvre warfare theory / History / M.A. (History)

Cette recherche montre que l’espace médiatique, en temps de commémoration, est un lieu privilégié pour un.e historien.ne qui souhaite capturer les dynamiques mémorielles d’une collectivité. Notre cas d’étude est la couverture médiatique du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale au prisme du The Guardian, Le Monde et Die Süeddeutsche Zeitung. Dans les sections en ligne First world war, Centenaire 14-18 et Erster Weltkrieg, nous avons analysé la couverture de presse sur une période allant de juin 2014 à juillet 2017. Cette étude utilise une définition opératoire de la mémoire collective qui nous aide à comprendre qu’il est nécessaire en histoire de la mémoire d’étudier le journalisme non pas comme une simple source d’archives, mais aussi comme un espace discursif où diverses représentations complexes du passé se rencontrent et communiquent afin de se redéfinir. Cet espace discursif possède deux points de jonction : l’histoire pratiquée et le mythistoire. Ce sont les dynamiques dans cet espace qui ont été étudiées pour chaque média dans ce mémoire. Nous identifions d’abord les grandes configurations historiographiques de la Grande Guerre, le rôle des historiens dans la couverture et tentons de voir dans quelle mesure ces configurations s’expriment dans les trois journaux étudiés. Pour terminer, les intentions commémoratives des journaux sont identifiées et mise à l’épreuve au moyen d’une étude des flux de nouvelles et des champs lexicaux de la couverture médiatique. / This mémoire aims to show that media space, in times of commemoration, is a privileged place for historians who want to capture the dynamics of a community’s memory. Our case study is the media coverage of the centenary of the First World War through the lens of The Guardian, Le Monde and Die Süeddeutsche Zeitung. We analysed in these newspapers the press coverage from June 2014 to July 2017 in the online sections First world war, Centenaire 14-18 and Erster Weltkrieg. This study uses an operative definition of collective memory that allows us to understand the necessity, in the history of memory field, to study journalism not simply as an archive, but also as a discursive space where various complex representations of the past meet and communicate in order to redefine themselves. This discursive space has two points of junction: Practiced history and “mythistory”. The dynamics of this space have been studied for each publication in this research. First, we identify the major historical configurations of the Great War, the role of historians in the coverage, and try to see to which extent these configurations are expressed in the three newspapers studied. Finally, the commemorative intentions of the newspapers are identified and then tested through a study of news-flow and an analysis of the lexical fields of the respective media coverage.

The topic of my work was The Repatriation of Czechs and Slovaks into Czechoslovakia after the First World War. I describe the years 1918 - 1923 in Central Europe, specifically in Czechoslovakia and in other new succession states after Austria-Hungary. My work is divided into 4 different chapters, introduction and conclusion. The first chapter describes the First World War and its consequences for Central European region. It also describes economic problems in succession states, the changes of territory, situation in Czechoslovakia after 1918 and it characterizes population in key countries (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria and Poland) for my topic. The second chapter is focused on Czechoslovakia. It shortly explains reasons of emigration and immigration of Czechs and Slovaks before and also after the First World War. It describes factors which have big influence on repatriation in Czechoslovakia (for example land reform). The third and fourth chapters analyze materials from archives. They present a lot of very concrete examples of repatriation process (lack of housing, problems with citizenship, unemployment). It points at importance of state executive institutions for repatriation process. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry Social Security and...

Austro-Hungarian Activities in China, 1894-1914 PhDr. Jan Kočvar My Ph.D. thesis evaluates Austro-Hungarian activities in China between 1894 and 1914, especially their political aspects. I would like to explain the nature of Austro-Hungarian contacts with China and their significance for the Dual Monarchy. The main source for my thesis was constituted by the materials in Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Vienna. Austria-Hungary concluded diplomatic relations with China in 1869, but her position in China remained weak. After the Sino-Japanese War, the Far East became a focus of interest of the Great Powers, and in 1896 was appointed the first Austro-Hungarian Minister to China. During the Scramble for Concessions in late nineties, Austro-Hungarian navy conducted survey of Chinese littoral and contemplated an establishment of a naval base in China, but finally rejected this idea. Austro-Hungarian trade and other interests in China were too insignificant to justify such an action. The peak of Austro-Hungarian presence is connected with the Boxer Uprising of 1900. Austria-Hungary didn't contribute to its genesis. During the uprising, Austro-Hungarian sailors were fighting in besieged Legation Quarter in Beijing, as well as in the metropolitan province of Zhili. Thereafter, Austro-Hungarian diplomacy took...

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