A Fractured Service: Frances Webster and the Great War, 1914-1918
Title | A Fractured Service: Frances Webster and the Great War, 1914-1918 |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Mcguire, Michael |
Journal | New England Quarterly |
Volume | 91 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 307 - 330 |
Date Published | 06/2018 |
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] |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00671 |
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