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UNINA9910806216703321 |
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Autore |
Kramer Alan <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / / Alan Kramer |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
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1-383-00261-4 |
0-19-156250-5 |
0-19-954377-1 |
1-281-14678-1 |
0-19-158011-2 |
9786611146788 |
0-19-151668-6 |
1-4356-0542-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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Making of the Modern World |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1914-1918 - Destruction and pillage |
World War, 1914-1918 - Atrocities |
War crimes |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [394]-415) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1. The burning of Louvain -- 2. The radicalization of warfare -- 3. The warriors -- 4. German singularity? -- 5. Culture and war -- 6. Trench warfare and its consequences -- 7. War, bodies, and minds -- 8. Victory, trauma, and post-war disorder -- Conclusion -- Historiographical note -- Appendix: Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907). |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were |
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