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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817414103321

Titolo

War and the Humanities : The Cultural Impact of the First World War / Jeffrey M Shaw, Frank Jacob, Timothy J. Demy, Jeffrey M. Shaw, Hiram Kümper, Frank Jacob, Sarah K. Danielsson, Jeffrey M Shaw, Sabine Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paderborn, : Brill | Schöningh, 2018

ISBN

3-657-78824-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

War (Hi) Stories ; 2

Disciplina

940.3

Soggetti

Geisteswissenschaften

Erster Weltkrieg

Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Militärgeschichte

Kulturgeschichte

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The battles of the First World War created a fundamentally new impression of war. Total warfare, the use of propaganda, chemical weapons, and every possible other measure to ensure victory defined the event that should later be known as the »Great War«, because it caused so many deaths and much suffering. The catastrophe also had an impact on the humanities, which inevitably had to deal with the processing of an event that seemed to be too big to be clearly understood by the human mind. The present volume covers several interdisciplinary perspectives by dealing with the impact of the war on the humanities during and after the conflict that deeply influenced the mindset of the 20th century.