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Warfare and Belligerence : Perspectives in First World War Studies.
Title:
Warfare and Belligerence : Perspectives in First World War Studies.
Author:
Purseigle, Pierre.
ISBN:
9781433707551
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (432 pages)
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- List of Figures, Maps and Graphs -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Warfare and Belligerence: Approaches to the First World War (Pierre Purseigle) -- Chapter One. 'It All Goes Wrong!': German, French, and British Approaches to Mastering the Western Front (Dennis Showalter) -- Chapter Two. Discipline in the Italian Army 1915-1918 (Vanda Wilcox) -- Chapter Three. New Jerusalems: Sacrifice and Redemption in the War Experiences of English and German Military Chaplains (Patrick Porter) -- Chapter Four. Encountering the 'Enemy': Prisoner of War Transport and the Development of War Cultures in 1914 (Heather Jones) -- Chapter Five. Marc Sangnier's War, 1914-1919: Portrait of a Soldier, Catholic and Social Activist (Gearóid Barry) -- Chapter Six. From Liberalism to Labour: Josiah C. Wedgwood and English Liberalism During the First World War (Paul Mulvey) -- Chapter Seven. Protest and Disability: A New Look at African American Soldiers During the First World War (Jennifer D. Keene) -- Chapter Eight. Huts, Demobilisation and the Quest for an Associational Life in Rural Communities in England after the Great War (Keith Grieves) -- Chapter Nine. An American Geographer between Science and Diplomacy: The Mission of Douglas W. Johnson in Europe, May-November 1918 (Nicolas Ginsburger) -- Chapter Ten. The Great War and Modern Scholarship: Academic Responses to War in Paris and London (Elizabeth Fordham) -- Chapter Eleven. New Writers, New Literary Genres (1914-1918): The Contribution of Historical Comparatism (France, Germany) (Nicolas Beaupré) -- Chapter Twelve. Women Readers of Henri Barbusse: The Evidence of Letters to the Author (Leonard V. Smith) -- Chapter Thirteen. Cinematic Representations of the Enemy in Belgian Silent Fiction Films (Leen Engelen).

Chapter Fourteen. Paris, Berlin: War Memory in Two Capital Cities (1914-1933) (Elise Julien) -- Index.
Abstract:
This collection of essays suggests some of the ways in which an interdisciplinary perspective may contribute to our understanding of the First World War. Its contributors examine the relationship between the character of the war and the nature of belligerent societies, and present original research on the comparative history of the Great War.
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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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