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Author | : Roger Chickering |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2000-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521773522 |
World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.
Author | : Roger Chickering |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521026376 |
This volume analyzes the First World War in light of the concept of "total war," particularly the systematic erosion of the distinction between the military and civilian spheres. Leading scholars from Europe and North America explore the efforts of soldiers and statesmen, industrialists and financiers, professionals and civilian activists to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.
Author | : Lawrence Sondhaus |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442269553 |
This compelling book explores Germany’s campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I, which marked the onset of total war at sea. Noted historian Lawrence Sondhaus shows how the undersea campaign, intended as an antidote to Britain’s more conventional blockade of German ports, ultimately brought the United States into the war. Although the German people readily embraced the argument that an “undersea blockade” of Britain enforced by their navy’s Unterseeboote (U-boats) was the moral equivalent of the British navy’s blockade of German ports, international opinion never accepted its legitimacy. Sondhaus explains that in their initial, somewhat confused rollout of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1915, German leaders underestimated the extent to which the policy would alienate the most important neutral power, the United States. In rationalizing the risk of resuming the unrestricted campaign in 1917, they took for granted that, should the United States join the Allies, German U-boats would be able to stop the transport of an American army to France. But by bringing the United States into the war, while also failing to stop the deployment of its troops to Europe, unrestricted submarine warfare ultimately led to Germany’s defeat. Because US manpower proved decisive in breaking the stalemate on the Western Front and securing victory for the Allies, Sondhaus argues that Germany’s decision to stake its fate on the U-boat campaign ranks among the greatest blunders of modern history.
Author | : Ian F. W. Beckett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317866150 |
The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.
Author | : J. M. Winter |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300127529 |
This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"-film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.
Author | : David Avrom Bell |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780618349654 |
The author maintains that modern attitudes toward total war were conceived during the Napoleonic era; and argues that all the elements of total war were evident including conscription, unconditional surrender, disregard for basic rules of war, mobilization of civilians, and guerrilla warfare.
Author | : Roger Chickering |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107037689 |
This book represents the most comprehensive history of Germany during the First World War.
Author | : Ronald Schaffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 0195049047 |
Contains excerpts from 3 key legislative acts.
Author | : Spencer Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253333728 |
Combines "an examination of principal battles and crucial turning points with a wider discussion of the European and global significance of war."--Cover.
Author | : Marc Ferro |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2003-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134499213 |
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.