- Editor’s Note 1
From the Executive Director 2
Letter from the President 3
Special Section: Empire and the Great War
An Empire of the Hejaz? An Examination of Sharif Hussein’s Pre-World War I Imperial Ambitions, James L. Bowden 4
The Adventures of William Barry: Exploring the Colonial Encounters of the First World War, Anna Maguire, King’s College London and Imperial War Museums 7
Maximum Advantage: Imperial Diplomacy and the United States, 1914 – 1917, Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma 10
The Retreat of World War I Austrian POWs to China, Lee Chinyun 15
Puerto Rican Soldiers in the First World War: Colonial Troops For A New Empire, Silvia Alvarez Curbelo, University of Puerto Rico 18
The Great War and a Colonial Landscape: Environmental History in German East Africa, 1914-16, Michael McInneshin, La Salle University 22
The Need to “Free” Africa from “German Oppression”: British Propaganda from German East Africa, 1914-1918, Charlotte Miller 25
The Dutch East Indies During the First World War and the Birth of Colonial Radio, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, University of Amsterdam 28
The Anzac Myth: History and Collective Public Memory in Australia on the Centenary of World War I, Andrew Kelly, University of Western Sydney 31
Mourning, Memory, and Material Culture: Colonial Commemoration of the Missing on the Great War’s Western Front, Hanna Smyth, University of British Columbia 34