Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / Alan Kramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Alan, 1954- author.

Series:

Making of the modern world.

Oxford scholarship online.

The making of the modern world

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Atrocities.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Destruction and pillage.

War crimes.

Cultural property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Culture and mass killing in the First World War

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Taking the burning of Louvain library by German troops in 1914 as his starting point, award-winning historian Alan Kramer offers a vivid new account of the wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept across Europe in the second and third decades of the 20th century.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The burning of Louvain

2. The radicalization of warfare

3. The warriors

4. German singularity?

5. Culture and war

6. Trench warfare and its consequences

7. War, bodies, and minds

8. Victory, trauma, and post-war disorder

Conclusion

Historiographical note

Appendix: Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907).

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-415) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9786611146788

9781383002614

1383002614

9780191562501

0191562505

9780199543779

0199543771

9781281146786

1281146781

9780191580116

0191580112

9780191516689

0191516686

9781435605428

143560542X

OCLC:

815381237

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32306 hdl