Revival After The Great War

Author : Luc Verpoest,Leen Engelen,Rajesh Heynickx,Jan Schmidt,Pieter Uyttenhove,Pieter Verstraete
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462702509

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Revival After the Great War by Luc Verpoest,Leen Engelen,Rajesh Heynickx,Jan Schmidt,Pieter Uyttenhove,Pieter Verstraete Pdf

The challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.

Author : Luc Verpoest,Leen Engelen,Rajesh Heynickx,Jan Schmidt,Pieter Uyttenhove,Pieter Verstraete
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9461663552

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Revival After the Great War by Luc Verpoest,Leen Engelen,Rajesh Heynickx,Jan Schmidt,Pieter Uyttenhove,Pieter Verstraete Pdf

Author : Sophie Hochhäusl,Erin Eckhold Sassin
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462703087

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States of Emergency by Sophie Hochhäusl,Erin Eckhold Sassin Pdf

What World War I meant for architecture and urbanism writ large More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from battle. The collection places an emphasis on the various states of emergency as experienced by combatants and civilians across five continents—from refugee camps to military installations, villages to capital cities—thus uncovering the role architecture played in mitigating and exacerbating the everyday tragedy of war.

Author : William Wallace Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Revivals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044025682428

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A Narrative of the Great Revival which Prevailed in the Southern Armies During the Late Civil War Between the States of the Federal Union by William Wallace Bennett Pdf

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002485626

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A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century by Charles Oman Pdf

Værket er opdelt i 7 afsnit omhandlende den militære geografi under de store krige i perioden 1494-1559 samt strategi og taktik. Afsnit to omhandler de store slag under de Italienske krige med en vurdering af den taktiske betydning. Afsnit III omhandler perioden 1527-59, afsnit IV den Engelske militærhistorie under Tudors, afsnit V religionskrigene i Frankrig i perioden 1562-98. Bog VI beskæftiger sig med Holland og den Hollanske uafhængighedskrig 1568-1609 og endelig handler afsnit VII om det Tyrkiske angreb på kristendommen i perioden 1520-1606.

Author : Jonathan H. Ebel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691162188

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Faith in the Fight by Jonathan H. Ebel Pdf

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War. Recovering the thoughts and experiences of American troops, nurses, and aid workers through their letters, diaries, and memoirs, Jonathan Ebel describes how religion--primarily Christianity--encouraged these young men and women to fight and die, sustained them through war's chaos, and shaped their responses to the war's aftermath. The book reveals the surprising frequency with which Americans who fought viewed the war as a religious challenge that could lead to individual and national redemption. Believing in a "Christianity of the sword," these Americans responded to the war by reasserting their religious faith and proclaiming America God-chosen and righteous in its mission. And while the war sometimes challenged these beliefs, it did not fundamentally alter them. Revising the conventional view that the war was universally disillusioning, Faith in the Fight argues that the war in fact strengthened the religious beliefs of the Americans who fought, and that it helped spark a religiously charged revival of many prewar orthodoxies during a postwar period marked by race riots, labor wars, communist witch hunts, and gender struggles. For many Americans, Ebel argues, the postwar period was actually one of "reillusionment." Demonstrating the deep connections between Christianity and Americans' experience of the First World War, Faith in the Fight encourages us to examine the religious dimensions of America's wars, past and present, and to work toward a deeper understanding of religion and violence in American history.

Author : Jay Winter,Antoine Prost
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843164

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The Great War in History by Jay Winter,Antoine Prost Pdf

Previous edition of this translation: 2005.

Author : Aaron Shaheen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599612

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Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture by Aaron Shaheen Pdf

Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.

Author : I. F. Clarke
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0815603584

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The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914 by I. F. Clarke Pdf

This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s—to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction—the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many able writers delighted readers from Sydney to Seattle with their most original revelations of things-to-come. In all their anticipations, the dominant factor was the recognition that the new industrial societies would continue to evolve in obedience to the rate of change. One major event that caused all to think furiously about the future was the Franco-German War of 1870. The new weapons and the new methods of army organization had shown that the conduct of warfare was changing; and, in response to that perception of change, a new form of fiction took on the task of describing the conduct of the war-to-come.

Author : C. Spretnak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137342577

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The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art by C. Spretnak Pdf

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This magisterial overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art.

Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521574536

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Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning by Jay Winter Pdf

Jay Winter's powerful and substantial new study of the "collective remembrance" of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Using a wide variety of literary, artistic and architectural evidence, Dr. Winter looks anew at the ways, many of them highly traditional, in which communities endeavored to find collective solace after the carnage of the First World War. The result is a profound and moving book, of seminal importance for the attempt to understand the course of European history during the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Oto Luthar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004316232

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The Great War and Memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe by Oto Luthar Pdf

A new, nuanced and revelatory account of the war waged as a revenge campaign against culturally “inferior” peoples of the Balkans.

Author : Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Military history, Modern
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030021890308

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Gustavus Adolphus by Theodore Ayrault Dodge Pdf

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826478824

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British Theatre in the Great War by Gordon Williams Pdf

That the period also saw the commercial theatre's absorption of continental avant-gardeism by way of revue, the last great epoch of music hall, the rise of the Old Vic with a project in opera and Shakespeare of which we are still the beneficiaries, and the unprecedented popularity of opera everywhere (this was surely the most fruitful period of Thomas Beecham's theatrical career) is compelling argument for revaluation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul Greenhalgh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474239721

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Ceramic, Art and Civilisation by Paul Greenhalgh Pdf

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco, International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech, exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.