The Great War and the Twentieth Century

✍ Scribed by Donald Levy

Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 366
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

World War I, the first “total war” in history, set in motion profound changes in the economies, demographics, and philosophies of the warring states. In this book, leading experts on the Great War discuss its causes, character, and legacy. Their writings show that to study World War I is to encounter not only the dissolution of the four defeated empires—Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—but also the collapse of the optimistic assumption of progress that had defined the nineteenth century. The analysis of the Great War, in fact, provides an essential framework for our understanding of the entire twentieth century. The book draws together military history, international history, and cultural history to offer a wide-ranging summary of current knowledge and debate regarding the First World War.

Contributors to this volume:

Modris Eksteins, Gerald Feldman, William C. Fuller, Jr., Mary R. Habeck, Holger H. Herwig, John Horne, Michael Howard, A. S. Kanya-Forstner, Leonard V. Smith, Zara Steiner, David Stevenson

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Framework
Chapter 1. The First World War Reconsidered
Chapter 2. The Eastern Front
Chapter 3. The Politics of the Two Alliances
Part II. The Waging of War
Chapter 4. Technology in the First World War The View from Below
Chapter 5. Narrative and Identity at the Front “Theory and the Poor Bloody Infantry”
Chapter 6. Mobilizing Economies for War
Chapter 7. Labor and Labor Movements in World War I
Part III. The Shadow of War
Chapter 8. The War, Imperialism, and Decolonization
Chapter 9. The War, the Peace, and the International State System
Chapter 10. Of Men and Myths The Use and Abuse of History and the Great War
Chapter 11. The Cultural Legacy of the Great War
Index

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