Introduction: Reading World War I posters / Pearl James -- Imaginings of war : posters and the shadow of the lost generation / Jay Winter -- War poster campaigns and images, comparative readings -- Barbaric anti-modernism : representations of the "Hun" in Britain, North America, Australia, and beyond / Nicoletta F. Gullace -- Chivalrous knights versus iron warriors : representations of the battle of materiel and slaughter in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 / Stefan Goebel -- Regression versus progression : fundamental differences in German and American posters of the First World War / Jakub Kazecki and Jason Lieblang -- Envisioning the nation and imagining national aesthetics -- Young blood : Parisian schoolgirls’ transformation of France’s Great War poster aesthetic / Mark Levitch -- Race and empire in French posters of the Great War / Richard S. Fogarty -- Images of racial pride : African American propaganda posters in the First World War / Jennifer D. Keene -- Segodniashnii Lubok : art, war, and national identity / Andrew M. Nedd -- Figuring the body in the context of war -- Images of femininity in American World War I posters / Pearl James -- Humanitarians and he-men : recruitment posters and the masculine ideal / Meg Albrinck -- Iconography of injury : encountering the wounded soldier’s body in American poster art and photography of World War I / John M. Kinder -- Epilogue / Jeffrey T. Schnapp