UID:
almahu_9947413964902882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 496 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139052511 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
These essays explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914 - in the era bounded by the mid-century wars in Europe and North America and the First World War. The concept of 'total war', which was prefigured in aspects of the earlier conflicts and realized in 1914, provides the analytical focus. The essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare in several forums - among soldiers, statesmen, women's groups and educators - on both sides of the Atlantic. Predictions of long, cataclysmic wars were not uncommon in these discussions, while the involvement of German and American soldiers in colonial warfare suggested that future combat would not spare civilians. Despite these 'anticipations of total war', virtually no one drew the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Total war : the use and abuse of a concept /
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Different path to war : a comparative study of militarism and imperialism in the United States and Imperial Germany, 1871-1914 /
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Political economy of warfare in America, 1865-1914 /
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Hugo Stinnes and the prospect of war before 1914 /
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War preparations and ethnic and racial relations in the United States /
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Religion and war in Imperial Germany /
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Socializing American youth to be citizen-soldiers /
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Preparing German youth for war /
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Heroes and would-be heroes : veterans' and reservists' associations in Imperial Germany /
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Mobilizing philanthropy in the service of war : the female rituals of care in the New Germany, 1871-1914 /
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American debate over modern war, 1871-1914 /
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Whose war? whose nation? tensions in the memory of the Franco-German war of 1870-1871 /
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War preparations and national identity in Imperial Germany /
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Military imagination in the United States, 1815-1917 /
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Dreams and nightmares : German military leadership and the images of future warfare, 1871-1914 /
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"Calamity to civilization" : Theodore Roosevelt and the danger of war in Europe /
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Total war on the American Indian frontier /
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"Fellows can just starve" : on wars of "pacification" in the African colonies of Imperial Germany and the concept of "total war" /
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Was the Philippine-American war a "total war"? /
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Army on vacation? the German war in China, 1900-1901 /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521622943
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139052511
