Ana Paula Pires is at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.Jan Schmidt is Associate Professor for Modern Japanese History in the Faculty of Arts of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.María Inés Tato works as Independent Researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina (CONICET).

• 1.Introduction: Other war experiences: Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa in the First World War  2. Portuguese philanthropic efforts during the First World War  3. The battle for Spain (1914-1918): Economic war, international law and national reform  4. Propaganda War in Latin America during the First World War  5. An Argentine reporter in the European trenches: Col. Emilio Kinkelin’s war chronicles  6. The Great war and its effects on the globalization of the Japanese publishing industry  7. Why is the Great War important to Asia?  8. Not a Secondary Experience: The First World War in Japanese Elementary Schools, Department Stores and in the Mass Media  9. To survive the next total war: Chinese intellectuals understanding of war and political change, 1919-1937  10. To defend the Dharma of the World: Siamese Theravada Buddhism and the First World War  11. Reporting the wars in British Africa, 1914-1919  12. Building Tanganyika: local leaders and postwar recovery in 1920s Tanganyika

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