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Uncovered fields : Perspectives in First World War studies.
Title:
Uncovered fields : Perspectives in First World War studies.
Author:
Purseigle, P.
ISBN:
9789047402596
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Perspectives in First World War Studies -- A Uniform of Whiteness: Racisms in the German Officer Corps, 1900-1918 -- Soldiers' Suffering and Military Justice in the German Army of the Great War -- Cromwell on the Bed Stand: Allied Civil-Military Relations in World War I -- A Community at War: British Civilian Internees at the Ruhleben Camp in Germany, 1914-1918 -- Beyond and Below the Nations: Towards a Comparative History of Local Communities at War -- Stereotypical Bedfellows: The Combination of Anti-Semitism with Germanophobia in Great Britain, 1914-1918 -- Leave and Schizophrenia: Permissionnaires in Paris During the First World War -- Forging The Industrial Home Front: Iron-Nail Memorials in the Ruhr -- The Great War Between Degeneration and Regeneration -- 'Gladder to be Going Out Than Afraid': Shellshock and Heroic Masculinity in Britain, 1914-1919 -- Tears in the Trenches: A History of Emotions and the Experience of War -- La Dame Blanche: Gender and Espionage in Occupied Belgium -- War Neurosis and Viennese Psychiatry in World War One -- How a Pro-German Minority Influenced Dutch Intellectual Debate During the Great War -- 1914-18: The Death Throes of Civilization. The Elites of Latin-America Face the Great War -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This work presents research on the military, social, and cultural history of World War I. It explores the stresses of waging a war, whose "totalizing logic" issued formidable challenges to communities, and accounted for the pervasion of the conflict into the private sphere.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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