A Fractured Service: Frances Webster and the Great War, 1914-1918

TitleA Fractured Service: Frances Webster and the Great War, 1914-1918
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsMcguire, Michael
JournalNew England Quarterly
Volume91
Issue2
Pagination307 - 330
Date Published06/2018
Abstract

Born to privilege in Boston, Frances Webster, like her peers volunteered overseas with the American Red Cross as a nurse's aide. Where the activities of other Americans during the First World War is characterized as a “culture of coercive volunterism,” Webster's reflected a more complex mixture of altruism and tourism. Her history of participation in the First World War suggests historians need more multifaceted frameworks to explain Americans' First World War service. [Publisher]

URLhttps://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00671
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