@article{1479831,
      recid = {1479831},
      author = {Kuhlman, Erika, },
      title = {Of Little Comfort : War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the  Remaking of the Nation after the Great War /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {During and especially after World War I, the millions of  black-clad widows on the streets of Europe's cities were a  constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale.  But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war's  fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses  in how nations crafted their identities in the interwar  era. In this extremely original study, Erika Kuhlman  compares the ways in which German and American widows  experienced their postwar status, and how that played into  the cultures of mourning in their two nations: one  defeated, the other victorious. Each nation used widows and  war dead as symbols to either uphold their victory or  disengage from their defeat, but Kuhlman, parsing both  German and U.S. primary sources, compares widows' lived  experiences to public memory. For some widows, government  compensation in the form of military-style awards sufficed.  For others, their own deprivations, combined with those  suffered by widows living in other nations, became the  touchstone of a transnational awareness of the absurdity of  war and the need to prevent it.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479831},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814748398.001.0001},
}