| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The making of the modern world |
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Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
The Burning of Louvain -- The Radicalization of Warfare -- The Warriors -- German Singularity? -- Culture and War -- Trench Warfare and its Consequences -- War, Bodies, and Minds -- Victory, Trauma, and PostWar Disorder |
| Summary |
On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now 'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-415) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Destruction and pillage
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities.
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War crimes.
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Cultural property.
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War Crimes
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cultural property.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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Atrocities
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Cultural property
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Destruction and pillage
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War crimes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191516689 |
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0191516686 |
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9786611146788 |
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6611146784 |
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9781435605428 |
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143560542X |
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9780191580116 |
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0191580112 |
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1281146781 |
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9781281146786 |
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