This is a collection of essays on various economic, sociological and related subjects. Those subjects are "Portrait Photography and the Commemoration of the First World War", "Museums and How We Remember Gender in Wartime", British War Enthusiasm in 1914 - a Reassessment", "Womens' Symbolic Role in the War Story", "Examining Gender, Morality and Sexuality in First World War Britain and France", The Case of French Women and the First World War Revisited", "British Shellshock and the Politics of Interpretation", "Food and the German Home Front", "Women and War in Russia 1914 - 1917", and "Italian Women During the Great War".
These essays are a valuable contribution to our understanding of this aspect of the conflict.