Format:
1 online resource (xii, 531 pages)
ISBN:
9780521026376
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9780521773522
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9781139052528
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
The First World War was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict in the world's history, and it gave birth to the concept of total war. The essays in this 2000 volume analyse the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the systematic erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres. With an emphasis on developments in Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States, leading scholars from Europe and North America locate the First World War along a trajectory that began in the wars of the middle of the nineteenth century and culminated in worldwide conflict in the middle of the twentieth. The essays explore the efforts of soldiers and statesmen, industrialists and financiers, professionals and civilian activists to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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From cabinet war to total war
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World War I and the theory of total war
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World War I and the revolution in logistics
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Mass warfare and the impact of technology
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Total was as a result of new weapons?
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Planning total war
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Most extensive experiment that the imagination can conceive
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War between soldiers and enemy civilians, 1914-1915
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Blockade of Germany and the strategy of starvation, 1914-1918
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Total rhetoric, limited war
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First air war against noncombatants
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Bullying the neutrals
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Poincaré, Clemenceau, and the quest for total victory
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Strategy and unlimited warfare in Germany
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Strategy of unlimited warfare
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French strategy on the western front, 1914-1918
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Strategy and total war in the United States
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War aims, state intervention, and business leadership in Germany
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Lloyd George and the management of the British war economy
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Better late than never
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How (not) to pay for the war
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Mobilizing German society for war
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Women's wartime services under the cross
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Pandora's box
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Painting and music during and after the great war
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521773522
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521773522
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139052528
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