Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / / Alan Kramer

• Autore: Kramer Alan <1954->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 940.405
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1914-1918 - Destruction and pillage; World War, 1914-1918 - Atrocities; War crimes
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [394]-415) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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).
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 now 'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dynamic of destruction
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248274303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)