| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 696 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to world history |
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Blackwell companions to world history.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Origins -- The war imagined : 1890-1914 / Gerd Krumeich -- The war explained : 1914 to the present / John Keiger -- pt. 2. The military conflict -- The war experienced : command, strategy, and tactics, 1914-1918 / Hew Strachan -- War in the West, 1914-1916 / Holger Herwig -- War in the East and Balkans, 1914-18 / Denis Showalter -- The Italian front, 1915-18 / Giorgio Rochat -- The Turkish War, 1914-1918 / Ulrich Trumpener -- The war in Africa / David Killingray -- Western front, 1917-18 / Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior -- The war at sea / Paul G. Halpern -- War in the air / John H. Morrow -- pt. 3. Faces of war -- Combat / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau -- Atrocities and massacres / Alan Kramer -- War aims and neutrality / Jean-Jacques Becker -- Industrial mobilization and war economies / Theo Balderston -- Faiths, ideologies and the "cultures of war" / Annette Becker -- Demography / Jay Winter -- Gender (masculinity and femininity) / Susan Grayzel -- Labour, pacifism, and revolution / John Horne -- Medicine and psychology (including shell-shock) / Sophie Delaporte -- Science and technology / Anne Rasmussen -- Intellectuals and writers / Christophe Prochasson -- The visual arts and the war / Annette Becker -- Film and the war / Pierre Sorlin -- pt. 4. States, nations, and empires -- Austria-Hungary and "Yugoslavia" / Mark Cornwall -- Belgium / Sophie de Schaepdrijver -- Britain and Ireland / Adrian Gregory -- France / Leonard Smith -- Germany / Gerhard Hirschfeld -- German-occupied Eastern Europe / Vejas Liulevicius -- Italy / Antonio Gibelli -- Russia / Eric Lohr -- Turkey / Hamit Boazarslan -- USA / Jennifer Keene -- French and British empires / Robert Aldrich and Chris Hilliard -- pt. 5. Legacies -- The peace settlement, 1919-1939 / Carole Fink -- War after the war : conflicts, 1919-23 / Peter Gatrell -- Mourning and memory / Laurence van Ypersele |
| Summary |
A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war's legacy Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
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World War, 1914-1918.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
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Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horne, John, 1949-
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| ISBN |
1118275802 |
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1405197242 |
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1444323636 |
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1444323644 |
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6612548282 |
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9781118275801 |
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9781405197243 |
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9781444323634 |
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9781444323641 |
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9786612548284 |
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