Fighting Hardship, Keeping Hope

This volume brings together nine studies analysing some of the lesser-known sidesof the Transylvanian home front in the years of World War I. They concern: dailyfood and the difficulties in supplying the population with basic goods; the collectionof economic resources for the war; war propaganda and the role of the Church asan instrument for promoting it; the situation of denominational schools and highereducation during the war years (the case of the Franz Joseph University in Cluj); therole of the press and other media in the Transylvanian Saxon communities; urbandaily life during the war (the case of the city of Sibiu); the perception of the war inRomanian parish chronicles as a less studied source pertaining to the home front.