Jones, H;
(2024)
A Forgotten Front? The Mediterranean Blockade in the First World War.
International History Review
pp. 1-18.
10.1080/07075332.2024.2344831.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article examines the First World War Allied blockade of the Mediterranean, a maritime blockade initiated by Britain and France, later assisted from 1915 by Italy and other Allied powers. It argues that this blockade raises major questions about the ways that the First World War became a ‘total war’, showing wartime radicalisation in the targeting of civilian non-combatants and how this became a war norm. It also argues that the Mediterranean blockade was actually multiple blockades carried out by a range of states, and therefore had a cumulative, wide reach in driving radicalisation, structured around diffuse, multilateral responsibility. This article examines the ways in which the blockade operated, before discussing how it illustrates wartime radicalisation by presenting two case studies on its diverse impact on hospital ships and upon civilians in Lebanon.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A Forgotten Front? The Mediterranean Blockade in the First World War |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07075332.2024.2344831 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2024.2344831 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2024.2344831 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Blockade; Mediterranean; First World War; hospital ships; Lebanon |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192403 |
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