The Great War and the Twentieth Century / Donald Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Donald, Author.

Contributor:

Winter, J. M.

Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

Habeck, Mary R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The First World War Reconsidered

Chapter 2. The Eastern Front

Chapter 3. The Politics of the Two Alliances

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

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9780300147612

0300147619

OCLC:

861792936