The Study Of The Great War
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Author | : Christoph Cornelissen |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2022-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1800737270 |
From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
Author | : Bruno Cabanes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110702062X |
Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.
Author | : Karen Petrone |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2011-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253001447 |
Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was the subject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotism during the interwar period. Using memoirs, literature, films, military histories, and archival materials, Petrone reconstructs Soviet ideas regarding the motivations for fighting, the justification for killing, the nature of the enemy, and the qualities of a hero. She reveals how some of these ideas undermined Soviet notions of military honor and patriotism while others reinforced them. As the political culture changed and war with Germany loomed during the Stalinist 1930s, internationalist voices were silenced and a nationalist view of Russian military heroism and patriotism prevailed.
Author | : Jay Winter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108843166 |
Previous edition of this translation: 2005.
Author | : Radhika Singha |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197566901 |
Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over??550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this unacknowledged service. The labor regimes built on the backs of these 'coolies' sustained the military infrastructure of empire; their deployment in interregional arenas bent to the demands of global war. Viewed as racially subordinate and subject to 'non-martial' caste designations, they fought back against their status, using the warring powers' need for manpower as leverage to challenge traditional service hierarchies and wage differentials. The Coolie's Great War views that global conflict through the lens of Indian labor, constructing a distinct geography of the war--from tribal settlements and colonial jails, beyond India's frontiers, to the battlefronts of France and Mesopotamia.
Author | : Gustave Le Bon |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2022-12-21 |
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Author | : Nicholas Murray |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2013-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597975532 |
Nicholas Murray's The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914. During this period field fortifications became increasingly important, and their construction evolved from primarily above to below ground. The reasons for these changes are crucial to explaining the landscape of World War I, yet they have remained largely unstudied. The transformation in field fortifications reflected not only the ongoing technological advances but also the changing priorities in the reasons for constructing them, such as preventing desertion, protecting troops, multiplying forces, reinforcing tactical points, providing a secure base, and dominating an area. Field fortification theory, however, did not evolve solely in response to improving firepower or technology. Rather, a combination of those factors and societal ones-for example, the rise of large conscript armies and the increasing participation of citizens rather than subjects-led directly to technical alterations in the actual construction of the fieldworks. These technical developments arose from the second wave of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century that provided new technologies that increased the firepower of artillery, which in turn drove the transition from above- to belowground field fortification. Based largely on primary sourcesùincluding French, British, Austrian, and American military attache reports-Murray's enlightening study is unique in defining, fully examining, and contextualizing the theories and construction of field fortifications before World War I.
Author | : Adrian Gregory |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521450373 |
A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.
Author | : Stefanos Geroulanos |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022655662X |
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as an integrated yet brittle whole. Responding to the harrowing experience of the Great War, the medical community sought conceptual frameworks to understand bodily shock, brain injury, and the vast differences in patient responses they occasioned. Geroulanos and Meyers carefully trace how this emerging constellation of ideas became essential for thinking about integration, individuality, fragility, and collapse far beyond medicine: in fields as diverse as anthropology, political economy, psychoanalysis, and cybernetics. Moving effortlessly between the history of medicine and intellectual history, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe is an intriguing look into the conceptual underpinnings of the world the Great War ushered in.
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.