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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265230503321

Titolo

A companion to World War I / / edited by John Horne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-118-27578-0

1-4051-7727-6

1-4443-2363-6

1-282-54828-X

1-118-27579-9

1-4051-9724-2

1-78034-161-X

1-4443-2364-4

9786612548284

1-118-27580-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (912 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to world history

Altri autori (Persone)

HorneJohn <1949->

Disciplina

940.3

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- A COMPANION TO WORLD WAR I -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Editor's Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I ORIGINS -- 1 The War Imagined: 1890-1914 -- 2 The War Explained: 1914 to the Present -- PART II THE MILITARY CONFLICT -- 3 The War Experienced: Command, Strategy, and Tactics, 1914-18 -- 4 War in the West, 1914-16 -- 5 War in the East and Balkans, 1914-18 -- 6 The Italian Front, 1915-18 -- 7 The Turkish War, 1914-18 -- 8 The War in Africa -- 9 War in the West, 1917-18 -- 10 The War at Sea -- 11 The War in the Air -- PART III FACES OF WAR -- 12 Combat -- 13 Combatants and Noncombatants: Atrocities, Massacres, and War Crimes -- 14 War Aims and Neutrality -- 15 Industrial Mobilization and War Economies -- 16 Faith, Ideologies, and the "Cultures of War" -- 17 Demography -- 18 Women and Men -- 19 Public Opinion and Politics



-- 20 Military Medicine -- 21 Science and Technology -- 22 Intellectuals and Writers -- 23 The Visual Arts -- 24 Film and the War -- PART IV STATES, NATIONS, AND EMPIRES -- 25 Austria-Hungary and "Yugoslavia" -- 26 Belgium -- 27 Britain and Ireland -- 28 France -- 29 Germany -- 30 German-Occupied Eastern Europe -- 31 Italy -- 32 Russia -- 33 The Ottoman Empire -- 34 The United States -- 35 The French and British Empires -- PART V LEGACIES -- 36 The Peace Settlement, 1919-39 -- 37 War after the War: Conflicts, 1919-23 -- 38 Mourning and Memory, 1919-45 -- Select Primary Sources -- Extended Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war's legacy Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE.