World War I and beyond : human tragedies, social challenges, scientific and cultural responses / Bogdan Murgescu, Ioana Pintilie (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murgescu, Bogdan, 1963- editor.

Pintilie, Ioana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Europe--Congresses.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2021]

Summary:

This volume includes 13 papers presented in the sections History and Sciences of the Humboldt-Kolleg 'World War I and Beyond: Human Tragedies, Social Challenges, Scientific and Cultural Responses' organised in Bucharest on September 17-19, 2018; a separate volume is dedicated to selected contributions focusing on literary and cultural studies (Ioana Crăciun: 'Wenn die Waffen sprechen, schweigen die Musen nicht'). The papers are grouped in three sections - 'Intellectuals Facing the Challenges of World War I', 'Societies Dealing with War Traumas', and 'Nations and States Coping with War and Peace'. While having a clear focus on Central and Eastern Europe, the volume succeeds in bringing together multiple and complementary perspectives to the complexities of World War I and attempts to integrate the approaches and findings presented at the Bucharest conference in the broader discussions and analyses of this traumatic historical event which has shaped Europe and the world.

Contents:

Intellectuals facing the challenges of World War I

What is kulturnation? On the theory of identity and the tragedies of World War I / Victor Neumann

Between patriotism and universalism : World War I and the dissolution of the scientific community / Mircea Flonta and Cătălin Vasilescu

Romanian mathematicians in World War I / Temistocle Bîrsan and Dan Tiba

Societies dealing with war traumas : World War I and some of its major effects on the environment / Ioana Ionel

World War I : the beginning of the chemical warfare agents era and their impact on mankind over the last 100 years / Ștefan Neațu

The neurotic state at war : Austro-Hungarian war psychiatry and its aftermath in East Central Europe / Maciej Górny

The timeless trauma : shell shock, the posttraumatic stress disorder of World War I / Oltea Joja

Ulysses in the World War I : returning by train at the end of the war : a view from literature, memoirs and diaries / Dorin Stănescu

Nations and states coping with war and peace

Croats in World War I : loyalty/disloyalty and the end of Austria-Hungary, 1918 / Aleksandar Jakir

Around the year 1918 : the Yugoslav state between great expectations and reality / Milan Ristović

Peacemaking in the east : Romania and the issue of minority protection at the Paris Peace Conference (1919) / Alin Matei

Czechoslovakia, Romania and the question of Danube after World War I / Roman Holec

"What country doesn't have its traitors?" : debating the concepts of "traitor" and "collaboration" in Romanian society, 1916 -1922 / Andrei Florin Sora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: World War I and beyond

ISBN:

9783825372477

3825372472

OCLC:

1266643441