In this U.S. recruitment poster, Uncle Sam appeals to the sense of duty and honour. Schneck: It’s up to you – Protect the nation’s honor, colour lithograph, n.d.; source: Library of Congres.
The International Encyclopedia of the First World War” is an English-language virtual reference work on the First World War. The multi-perspective, open-access knowledge base is the result of an international collaborative project involving more than 1,000 historians, editors, and institutions from over fifty countries. The project management is located at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). More than 1,000 articles will be gradually published. Innovative navigation schemes based on Semantic Media Wiki technology provide nonlinear access to the encyclopedia’s content.
Train taking German troops to the Western Front, August 1914. Unknown photographer. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Since 2011 the international joint research project”1914-1918-online. It is organized in six topics: Pre-War, violence, power, media, home front and post-war. Check the International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
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Gachelin, Gabriel and Opinel, Annick. Malaria epidemics in Europe after the First World War: the early stages of an international approach to the control of the disease.Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.431-470. ISSN 0104-5970
Gachelin, Gabriel and Opinel, Annick The reception by French physicians of Chagas’ discovery of Trypanosoma cruziand American trypanosomiasis (1909-1925). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, July 2009, vol.16, suppl.1, p.35-56. ISSN 0104-5970
