La Guerra Grande

In questo episodio ci dedichiamo al fronte interno della Germania, analizzando come alcuni elementi di natura diversa abbiano concorso al consenso attorno al conflitto, pur mantenendo sullo sfondo le profonde contraddizioni che caratterizzavano l'impero del Kaiser.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Keith Allen, Sharing scarcity: Bread rationing and the First World War in Berlin, 1914-1923, Journal of Social History 32, 1998

G. Brown, Explosives: History with a Bang, The History Press, 2011

Claus Bundgård Christensen, Fighting for the Kaiser: The Danish minority in the German army, 1914—18, Scandinavia in the First World War, 2012

Amos Elon, The Pity of It All, Henry Holt, 2002

Deutsche jüdische Soldaten, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge

Dieter Groh, The 'Unpatriotic Socialists' and the State, Journal of Contemporary History 1, 1966
 
Ryszard Kaczmarek, Poles in Kaiser’s Army On the Front of the First World War, Peter Lang, 2020

Dariusz Matelski, Polacy w Niemczech między wojnami (1919–1939), Przegląd Nauk Historycznych III, 2004

Marvin Perry, Frederick M. Schweitzer, Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Andrej Reisin, Erster Weltkrieg: Vom Kriegsrausch zum Massensterben, NDR, 2019

Erik Ringmar, The spirit of 1914, War in History 25, Sage Publications, 2018

Oliver Schweinoch, Arnulf Scriba, Das 'August-Erlebnis’, Deutsches Historisches Museum, 2022

Piotr Stanek, Niemieckie obozy jenieckie dla Polaków z armii rosyjskiej w latach I wojny światowej (1916–1918), Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny 40, 2017

The New York Times, 2/3/1921

Vanessa Ther, Propaganda at Home (Germany), 1914-1819 Online, 2014

Bernd Ulrich, German Soldiers in the Great War: and Savey Letters and Eyewitness Accounts, Pen and Sword Military, 2010

Q. Wang, Franz Fillafer, The many faces of Clio: cross-cultural approaches to historiography, Berghahn Books, 2007

Alexander Watson, Fighting for Another Fatherland: The Polish Minority in the German Army, 1914—1918, The English Historical Review 12, 2011

Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel, Penguin Books, 2014

D. G. Williamson, Walther Rathenau and the K.R.A. August 1914-March 1915, Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 11, 1978

H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006

Carl Zuckmayer, Als wär's ein Stück von mir, Fischer, 1966

Stefan Zweig, Il mondo di ieri, Garzanti, 2014

In copertina: Manifesto propagandistico del 1918 di Lucian Zabel, per l'arruolamento nella milizia. Recita: La tua patria è in pericolo!

In questo episodio vedremo come di fatto la Russia abbia vissuto il conflitto del 1914 in due mondi radicalmente diversi, ovvero quello della città e quello della campagna. Nella parte finale invece analizzeremo le situazioni di Serbia, Montenegro e Giappone.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Ivan Basenko, The “German Intrigue” as an Element of the Anti-Ukrainian Campaign: A Case Study of Kyiv’s Russian Language Press, 1914-18, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 5, 2018

Mile Bjelajac, Serbia, 1914-1918 Online, 2015

John Bushnell, Russian Peasants and Soldiers during World War I: Home and Front Interacting: Russian Studies in History 56, 2017

Isao Chiba, Making Sense of the War (Japan), 1914-1918 Online, 2022

Cloé Drieu, Turkestan, 1914-1918 Online, 2016

Matteo Ermacora, Civilian Morale, 1914-1918 Online, 2015

Peter Gatrell, Poor Russia, poor show: mobilising a backward economy for war, 1914–1917, The Economics of World War I, 2005

Mark Harrison, Russia’s Home Front, 1914-1922: The Economy, 2012

Radoslav Raspopović, Montenegro, 1914-1918 Online, 2014

Klaus Richter, Baltic States and Finland, 1914-1918 Online, 2014 Piotr Szlanta, Poland, 1914-1918 Online, 2014

In copertina: manifesto propagandistico russo del 1914, che rappresenta Gesù che si rivela a un soldato morente.

In questo episodio ci concentriamo sulle opinione pubbliche della Francia e del Belgio, nonché dell'impatto sociale, economico e culturale che il conflitto ha avuto nei loro imperi coloniali.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

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Fonti dell'episodio:

C. M. Andrew, A. S. Kanya-Forstner, France, Africa, and the First World War, The Journal of African History 19, 1978

Lancelot Arzel, Fighting on the Equator. War Violence and Colonial Experiences among Congolese Troops during World War I, Journal of Belgian History 48, 2018

Robert Colonna d'Istria, Histoire de la Corse: Des origines à nos jours, Éditions Tallandier, 2019

Cédric Condon, La guerre de tous les français, ECPAD, 2018

Joël Cornette, Histoire de la Bretagne et des Bretons, Le Seuil, 2008

Patrick Daum, Les bretons dans la guerre de 1914-1918, Histoire par l'image, 2016

Guillaume Davranche, Mai 1913: Débuts de mutineries dans les casernes, Commission Journal, 2013

Chantal Dhennin-Lalart, Les fronts intérieurs d’août 1914 à novembre 1918: les civils occupés, évacués et réfugiés, Ravages et héritages de la Grande Guerre, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021

Michel Dumoulin, L'Entrée dans le XXe Siècle, 1905–1918, Nouvelle Histoire de Belgique, Le Cri édition, 2010

Sylvain Gregori, Une captivité insulaire. Prisonniers de guerre et internés civils en Corse 1914-1918 , Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 81, 2010

Didier Guyvarc'h, La Bretagne dans la guerre de 1914-1918: un quotidien bouleversé, Bécédia, 2017

Richard Fogarty, Tirailleurs Sénégalais, 1914-1918 Online, 2016

La Corse, région la plus meurtrie par la Première Guerre mondiale… vraiment?, France3, 2016

La Grande Guerre des Auvergnats, 2015

Amandine Lauro, 'To our Colonial Troops, Greetings from the Far-Away Homeland'. Race, security and (Inter-)Imperial Anxieties in the Discussion on Colonial Troops in World War one Belgium, Journal of Belgian History 48, 2018

Arnaud Leonard, Centenary (Madagascar), 1914-1918 Online, 2021

Branden Little, Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB), 1914-1918 Online, 2014

Jean-Luc Mastin, Organization of War Economies (France), 1914-1918 Online, 2023

Jean-Marie Mayeur, Panorama historique, Histoire de la langue française 1880-1914, CNRS Éditions, 1999

Indiana Neidell, French North Africa in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special, The Great War, 2018

Enika Ngongo, The forgotten. African Soldiers and Porters of the Belgian Colonial Forces in the First World War, Journal of Belgian History 48, 2018

George N. Njung, West Africa, 1914-1918 Online, 2024 Daniele Notaro, I Tirailleurs indochinois nella Grande Guerra

Sébastien Ottavi, “Ce vaste massacre fait notre orgueil, mais nous permet de parler haut.” Les Corses et l’impôt du sang, autour de 1914-1918, Minorités, identités régionales et nationales en guerre, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017

Deborah Paci, Francesco Guerri e il movimento irredentista còrso in Italia, Corse et Toscane aux époques moderne et contemporaine, Études corses, 2014

Michael Pesek, Force Publique, 1914-1918 Online, 2017

Ronan Richard, Les Bretons et la Grande Guerre, Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest 121, 2014

Ian Sumner, French Poilu 1914–18, Osprey, 2009

Claire Thi Liên Trân, Indochina, 1914-1918 Online, 2022 Larissa Wegner, Occupation during the War (Belgium and France), 1914-1918 Online, 2014

H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006

In copertina: poster di propaganda francese "On ne passe pas", di Maurice Neumont, 1918.

In questo episodio ci concentriamo su come il conflitto sia stato percepito e vissuto dalle opinioni pubbliche dell'Impero Britannico. Attraverso una prospettiva britannica, indiana, africana, australiana, neozelandese, canadese, e caraibica cercheremo di comprendere come i governi abbiano costruito il loro consenso alla guerra e come l'impero più grande della storia abbia risposto alla chiamata.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

Montaggio e audio: Andrea Basso

Fonti dell'episodio:

Carl Benn, Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884–1885, Dundurn, 2009

Black Canadians in uniform, Government of Canada, 2026

British West Indies Regiment, National Army Museum

Mihir Bose, The Magic of Indian Cricket: Cricket and Society in India

David Chandler, The Oxford History of the British Army, Oxford University Press, 1996

Norman Clothier, Black valour: the South African Native Labour Contingent, 1916-1918, and the sinking of the Mendi, University of Natal Press, 1987

Oliver Coates, Beyond Anonymity: Nigerian Participation in World War One Commemoration: 1919–1939, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 53, 2025

Adam Crerar, Ontario and the Great War, Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown, University of Toronto Press, 2005

John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines, Peredur Lynch, The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, University of Wales Press, 2008

Department of Veterans' Affairs, Internment camps in Australia during World War I, DVA Anzac Portal, 2021

Nándor F. Dreisziger, Ethnic Armies: Polyethnic Armed Forces from the Time of the Habsburgs to the Age of the Superpowers, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990

Gerhard Fischer, ‘Negative integration’ and an Australian road to modernity: Interpreting the Australian homefront experience in World War I, Australian Historical Studies 26, 1995

David Fitzpatrick, Politics and Irish Life, 1913–1921: Provincial Experience of War and Revolution, Cork University Press, 1998

Jack Lawrence Granatstein, Canada, 1914-1918 Online, 2018

Thomas Hennessey, Dividing Ireland, World War I and Partition, Ireland in 1914, Routledge Press, 1998

How The West Indies Helped The War Effort In The First World War, Imperial War Museum

E.A. James, British Regiments 1914–18, Samson Books, 1978

Keith Jeffery, The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918–22, Manchester University Press, 1986

Michael King, Te Puea: A Biography, Hodder and Stoughton, 1977

Kitchener mayor notes 100th year of name change, CBC, 1/9/2016

Norman Leach, Passchendaele: Canada's Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders: an Illustrated History, Coteau Books, 2008

Joe Harris Lunn, War Losses (Africa), 1914-1918 Online, 2015

Stuart Macintyre, The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age, Oxford University Press, 1986

James K. Matthews, World War I and the Rise of African Nationalism: Nigerian Veterans as Catalysts of Change, The Journal of Modern African Studies 20, 1982

Ian McGibbon, The Shaping of New Zealand's War Effort, August–October 1914, New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies & the First World War, Exisle Publishing, 2007

Jairus Omuteche, World War 1 and Colonialism in Kenya: Perspectives through Historiography and Literary Imaginaries, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 10, 2024

Panikos Payani, Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War, Manchester University Press, 2013

Panikos Payani, Enemy in our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War, Bloomsbury, 2014

Christopher S. Rose, Egypt, 1914-1918 Online, 2024

T. C. Smout, A Century of The Scottish People, 1830–1950, Collins 1986

Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War. 1914–1920, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922

Robert J. Talbot, 'It would be best to leave us alone': First Nations Responses to the Canadian War Effort, Journal of Canadian Studies 45, 2011

The Story Of The British West Indies Regiment In The First World War, Imperial War Museum

James W. G. Walker, Race and Recruitment in World War I, Vancouver Island University, 2001

H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006

WW1 From an Indian Perspective, Imperial War Museums, 2025

In copertina: cartolina propagandista britannica pubblicata nel 1916. La Gran Bretagna, il leone, conduce i propri cuccioli, ovvero Canada, India, Australia e Sudafrica. © Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection.

ATTENZIONE! L'intervista è stata registrata dal vivo, quindi l'audio in alcuni punti potrebbe non essere dei migliori.

In questo episodio speciale ho avuto il piacere di fare qualche domanda alla dott. ssa Ginevra Zelaschi, ricercatrice presso il Centro di Studi Storici di Rovigno, e col dott. Marco Zelaschi. Due fratelli accomunati da una grande passione per la Marina Austroungarica, con i quali abbiamo attraversato due secoli della storia di questa ben poco conosciuta componente delle forze armate austroungariche.

In copertina: La fregata SMS Novara nel corso del suo giro del mondo (1857-1859).