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Author : Jay Winter,Jean-Louis Robert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521870436
This 2007 book is a comparative social and economic history of the capitals of Britain, France and Germany in 1914-18.
Author : Jay Winter,Jean-Louis Robert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 052166814X
This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating to the economy and the question of whether the state of the capitals contributed to victory or defeat. Expert contributors in fields stretching from history, demography, anthropology, economics, and sociology to the history of medicine, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, as well as representing the best of recent research in their own fields. Capital Cities at War, one of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, will transform studies of the conflict, and is likely to become a paradigm for research on other wars.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : OCLC:905434961
Author : J. M. Winter,Jean-Louis Robert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : OCLC:77796023
Author : Catriona Pennell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191624377
In this, the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time, successfully challenging post-war constructions of 'war enthusiasm' in the British case, and disengagement in the Irish. Drawing from a vast array of contemporary diaries, letters, journals, and newspaper accounts from across the UK, A Kingdom United explores what people felt, and how they acted, in response to an unanticipated and unprecedented crisis. It is a history of both ordinary people and elite figures in extraordinary times. Pennell demonstrates that describing the reactions of over 40 million British and Irish people to the outbreak of war as either enthusiastic in the British case, or disengaged in the Irish, is over-simplified and inadequate. Emotional reactions to the war were ambiguous and complex, and changed over time. By the end of 1914 the populations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland had largely embraced the war, but the war had also embraced them and showed no signs of relinquishing its grip. The five months from August to December 1914 set the shape of much that was to follow. A Kingdom United describes and explains the twenty-week formative process in order to deepen our understanding of British and Irish entry into war.
Author : Jay Winter,Jean-Louis Robert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521571715
This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. The authors have compiled a vast array of data and have drawn an original and coherent portrait of European cities at war. Contributors from several fields bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, and represent the best of recent scholarship. One of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, this volume will transform social studies of the conflict and is likely to become a model for research.
Author : Darragh Gannon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009158275
Explores Irish nationalism in Britain, from the politics of John Redmond to the political violence of Michael Collins.
Author : Hanneke Takken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351390750
This book is an international comparative study of the British, German and French military chaplains during the First World War. It describes their role, position and daily work within the army and how the often conflicting expectations of the church, the state, the military and the soldiers effected these. This study seeks to explain similarities and differences between the chaplaincies by looking at how the pre-war relations between church, state and society influenced the work of these army chaplains.
Author : Louis Halewood,Adam Luptak,Hanna Smyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351390095
The International Society for First World War Studies’ ninth conference, ‘War Time’, drew together emerging and leading scholars to discuss, reflect upon, and consider the ways that time has been conceptualised both during the war itself and in subsequent scholarship. War Time: First World War Perspectives on Temporality, stemming from this 2016 conference, offers its readers a collection of the conference’s most inspiring and thought-provoking papers from the next generation of First World War scholars. In its varied yet thematically-related chapters, the book aims to examine new chronologies of the Great War and bring together its military and social history. Its cohesive theme creates opportunities to find common ground and connections between these sub-disciplines of history, and prompts students and academics alike to seriously consider time as alternately a unifying, divisive, and ultimately shaping force in the conflict and its historiography. With content spanning land and air, the home and fighting fronts, multiple nations, and stretching to both pre-1914 and post-1918, these ten chapters by emerging researchers (plus an introductory chapter by the conference organisers, and a foreword by John Horne) offer an irreplaceable and invaluable snapshot of how the next generation of First World War scholars from eight countries were innovatively conceptualising the conflict and its legacy at the midpoint of its centenary.
Author : Alexander Jackson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781399002219
As modern football grapples with the implications of a global crisis, this book looks at first in the game’s history: The First World War. The game’s structure and fabric faced existential challenges as fundamental questions were asked about its place and value in English society. This study explores how conflict reshaped the People’s Game on the English Home Front. The wartime seasons saw football's entire commercial model challenged and questioned. In 1915, the FA banned the payment of players, reopening a decades-old dispute between the game's early amateur values and its modern links to the world of capital and lucrative entertainment. Wartime football forced supporters to consider whether the game should continue, and if so, in what form? Using an array of previously unused sources and images, this book explores how players, administrators and fans grappled with these questions as daily life was continually reshaped by the demands of total war. From grassroots to elite football, players to spectators, gambling to charity work, this study examines the social, economic and cultural impact of what became Football's Great War.
Author : Claire Morelon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009335324
Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation-state, Czechoslovakia. Claire Morelon explores what this transition looked, sounded and felt like at street level. Through deep archival research, she has carefully reconstructed the sensorial texture of the city, from the posters plastered on walls, to the shop windows' displays, the badges worn by passers-by, and the crowds gathering for protest or celebration. The result is both an atmospheric account of life amid war and regime change, and a fresh interpretation of imperial collapse from below, in which the experience of life on the Habsburg home-front is essential to understanding the post-Versailles world order that followed. Prague is the perfect case study for examining the transition from empire to nation-statehood, hinging on revolutionary dreams of fairer distribution and new forms of political participation.
Author : Patricia Tilburg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192578075
As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and social change. Nostalgia about a certain kind of France was written onto the bodies of the capital's couture workers throughout French pop culture from the 1880s to the 1930s. And the midinettes-as these women were called- were written onto the geography of Paris itself, by way of festivals, monuments, historic preservation, and guide books. The idealized working Parisienne stood in for, at once, the superiority of French taste and craft, and the political (and sexual) subordination of French women and labour. But she was also the public face of more than 80,000 real working women whose demands for better labour conditions were inflected, distorted, and, in some cases, amplified by this ubiquitous Romantic type in the decades straddling World War I. Working Girls bridges cultural histories of the Parisian imaginary and histories of French labour, and puts them in raucous dialogue with one another: a letter by a nineteen-year-old seamstress, a speech by a government minister; a frothy Parisian guide by a bon vivant, the minutes of a union meeting; a bawdy café-concert song, a policy brief on garment working conditions.
Author : Jennifer Wellington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107135079
A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.
Author : Alisa Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781942954347
Introduction -- Life. Youth -- The idyll -- Self-mobilisation -- Enlistment -- War and waiting -- The war sonnets -- Transport -- Afterlife. Patriotic poetry -- Public death -- Syndication -- Image -- Patrons -- Readers -- Poet-soldiers -- Careful critics -- Export -- Conclusion.
Author : Tim Grady
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846316609
Nearly one hundred thousand German Jews fought in World War I, and some twelve thousand of these soldiers lost their lives in battle. This book focuses on the multifaceted ways in which these soldiers have been remembered, as well as forgotten, from 1914 to the late 1970s. By examining Germany's complex and continually evolving memory culture, Tim Grady opens up a new approach to the study of German and German-Jewish history. In doing so, he draws out a narrative of entangled and overlapping relations between Jews and non-Jews, a story that extends past the Holocaust and into the Cold War.
