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Title The Cambridge history of the First World War. Volume I, Global war / edited by Jay Winter
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 754 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge histories online
Cambridge histories online
Contents Part I. A narrative history -- 1. Origins / Volker R. Berghahn -- 2. 1914: outbreak / Jean-Jacques Becker and Gerd Krumeich -- 3. 1915: stalemate / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau -- 4. 1916: impasse / Robin Prior -- 5. 1917: global war / Michael S. Neiberg -- 6. 1918: endgame / Christoph Mick -- 7. 1919: aftermath / Bruno Cabanes -- part II. Theatres of war -- 8. The western front / Robin Prior -- 9. The eastern front / Holger Afflerbach -- 10. The Italian front / Nicola Labanca -- 11. The Ottoman front / Robin Prior -- 12. The war at sea / Paul Kennedy -- 13. The air war / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- 14. Strategic command / Gary Sheffield and Stephen Badsey -- part III. World war -- 15. The imperial framework / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- 16. Africa / Bill Nasson -- 17. The Ottoman Empire / Mustafa Aksakal -- 18. Asia / Guoqi Xu -- 19. North America / Jennifer D. Keene -- 20. Latin America / Olivier Compagnon -- part IV. Rules of engagement, laws of war and war crimes -- 21. Atrocities and war crimes / John Horne -- 22. Genocide / Hans-Lukas Kieser and Donald Bloxham -- 23. The laws of war / Annie Deperchin -- 24. Visual essay : global war / Jay Winter
Summary This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians chart how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond what anyone had anticipated in 1914. Adopting a global perspective, the volume analyses the spatial impact of the war and the subsequent ripple effects that occurred both regionally and across the world. It explores how imperial powers devoted vast reserves of manpower and material to their war efforts, and how, by doing so, they changed the political landscape of the world order. It also charts the moral, political and legal implications of the changing character of war and, in particular, the collapse of the distinction between civilian and military targets
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on October 17, 2018)
Subject World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Political aspects
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Buddhism and politics
Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Winter, J. M., editor.
ISBN 9780511675669
0511675666
1316022560
9781316022566
1316023753
9781316023754
Other Titles Global war