The Tale Of The Next Great War 1871 1914

Author : Ignatius Frederick Clarke
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081562672X

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The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914 by Ignatius Frederick 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 : I. F. Clarke
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Joachim Remak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:257292299

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The Origins of World War I by Joachim Remak Pdf

Author : Arthur B. Evans
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780819574398

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Vintage Visions by Arthur B. Evans Pdf

Vintage Visions is a seminal collection of scholarly essays on early works of science fiction and its antecedents. From Cyrano de Bergerac in 1657 to Olaf Stapledon in 1937, this anthology focuses on an unusually broad range of authors and works in the genre as it emerged across the globe, including the United States, Russia, Europe, and Latin America. The book includes material that will be of interest to both scholars and fans, including an extensive bibliography of criticism on early science fiction—the first of its kind—and a chronological listing of 150 key early works. Before Dr. Strangelove, future-war fiction was hugely popular in nineteenth-century Great Britain. Before Terminator, a French author depicted Thomas Edison as the creator of the perfect female android. These works and others are featured in this critical anthology. Contributors include Paul K. Alkon, Andrea Bell, Josh Bernatchez, I. F. Clarke, William J. Fanning Jr., William B. Fischer, Allison de Fren, Susan Gubar, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Kamila Kinyon, Stanislaw Lem, Patrick A. McCarthy, Sylvie Romanowski, Nicholas Ruddick, and Gary Westfahl.

Author : Joachim Remak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1983-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844608734

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Origins of World War One by Joachim Remak Pdf

Author : Jean-Marie Mayeur,Madeleine Rebirioux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0521358574

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The Third Republic from Its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 by Jean-Marie Mayeur,Madeleine Rebirioux Pdf

This book provides a detailed account of French history from the oripins of the Thrid Republic, born out of the collapse of Napoleon III's Second Empire, to the coming of the Great WAr in 1914. Part 1 begins with the fall of the "notables" and the victory of the republicans. Then follows a picture of the economy and society of late nineteenth-century France, and an examination of spiritual and cultural development under the increasing threat from nationalist and socialist forces. The moderates' brief ascendancy at the end of the century followed by the extreme sentiments unleashed at the time of the Dreyfus affair, brings the story in Part 2 to a more passionately political period, when the republic finallynbecame established as a bulwark of bourgeois prosperity, witnessing the rise of the banks and big business, and the dangerous revival of colonial expansion.

Author : Charles E. Gannon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0742540359

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Rumors of War and Infernal Machines by Charles E. Gannon Pdf

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines offers a fascinating exploration of how fictional speculations on emergent or imaginary military technologies profoundly influence the political agendas and actions of modern superpower states. Gannon convincingly demonstrates that military fiction anticipated and even influenced the evolution of the tank, the development of the airplane, and also the bitter political battles within Britain's War Office and the Admiralty. In the United States, future-fictions and Cold-War thrillers were an officially acknowledged factor in the Pentagon's research and development agendas, and often gave rise_and shape_to the nation's strategic development of technologies as diverse as automation, atomic weaponry, aerospace vehicles, and the Strategic Defense Initiative ('Star Wars'). His book reveals a striking relationship between the increasing political influence of speculative military fiction and the parallel rise of superpower states and their technocentric ideologies. With its detailed political, historical, and literary analysis of U.S. and British fascination with hi-tech warfare, this lively and revealing study will appeal to students, literary and cultural scholars, military and history enthusiasts, and general readers.

Author : Robin Higham,Dennis E. Showalter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313017209

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Researching World War I by Robin Higham,Dennis E. Showalter Pdf

World War I was the greatest cataclysm Europe had ever known, directly involving 61 million troops from 16 nations. Yet the history of the war and the reasons it started and spread so rapidly were vastly more complex than the players realized. Written by highly respected authorities, this book discusses the literature on all aspects of the war, making it an excellent starting point for anyone seeking guidance to the immense, and often daunting, body of World War I literature. The struggle mobilized manpower from home, troops from the colonies abroad, and—in most countries-women as well as men. Governments increasingly intervened in everyday life. New weapons and organizational structures were developed. Yet the history of the war and the reasons it started and spread so rapidly were vastly more complex than the players realized. Written by highly respected authorities, this book discusses the literature on all aspects of the war. Dennis Showalter's opening chapter covers the controversial issue of the war's origins—a complex subject that has been much debated by historians. Ensuing chapters consider the literature on each of the participating countries. The broader subjects of the war at sea and the war in the air are also covered. Daniel Beaver's final chapter discusses the mobilization of industry and the new military technology. This book is an excellent starting point for anyone seeking guidance to the immense, and often daunting, body of World War I literature.

Author : Antulio J. Echevarria II
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313051104

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Imagining Future War by Antulio J. Echevarria II Pdf

Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th century forced military professionals and educated civilians to envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance on the world stage. Antulio J. Echevarria II offers a comparative study of these predictions to assess who got it right and why. He concludes that professionals were particularly adept at predicting the warfare of the immediate future by framing their discussions in terms of solving tactical problems, but they were much less successful at thinking of the long-term. Unburdened by the necessity of strategic problem-solving, educated amateurs were allowed more flexibility to imagine the long-term future of warfare, and, at times, proved to be remarkably accurate. Echevarria organizes his study by comparing visions of future wars on land, at sea, undersea, and in air. In each instance professionals and amateurs had their own distinctive imaginings. Among the notable speculators included in this book are science fiction author H.G. Wells and military theorist Ivan Bloch. This approach to the study of warfare is one of those rare examples of a book that can appeal to and inform a wide cross-section of readers.

Author : Alan Sandison
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403919298

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Histories of the Future by Alan Sandison Pdf

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines some of the ways in which writers, artists, film-makers, strategists and political thinkers have imagined the future over the last two centuries. Although a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come. These histories also disclose that our patterns of expectation are much influenced by our relationship to the past.

Author : Duncan Bell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691151168

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The Idea of Greater Britain by Duncan Bell Pdf

During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United Kingdom and its settler colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and southern Africa. In The Idea of Greater Britain, Duncan Bell analyzes this fertile yet neglected debate, examining how a wide range of thinkers conceived of this vast "Anglo-Saxon" political community. Their proposals ranged from the fantastically ambitious--creating a globe-spanning nation-state--to the practical and mundane--reinforcing existing ties between the colonies and Britain. But all of these ideas were motivated by the disquiet generated by democracy, by challenges to British global supremacy, and by new possibilities for global cooperation and communication that anticipated today's globalization debates. Exploring attitudes toward the state, race, space, nationality, and empire, as well as highlighting the vital theoretical functions played by visions of Greece, Rome, and the United States, Bell illuminates important aspects of late-Victorian political thought and intellectual life.

Author : Lissa Paul,Rosemary R. Johnston,Emma Short
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317361671

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Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War by Lissa Paul,Rosemary R. Johnston,Emma Short Pdf

Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection. This volume offers an unprecedented account of the lives, stories, letters, games, schools, institutions (such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA), and toys of children in Europe, North America, and the Global South during the First World War and surrounding years. By engaging with developments in Children’s Literature, War Studies, and Education, and mining newly available archival resources (including letters written by children), the contributors to this volume demonstrate how perceptions of childhood changed in the period. Children who had been constructed as Romantic innocents playing safely in secure gardens were transformed into socially responsible children actively committing themselves to the war effort. In order to foreground cross-cultural connections across what had been perceived as ‘enemy’ lines, perspectives on German, American, British, Australian, and Canadian children’s literature and culture are situated so that they work in conversation with each other. The multidisciplinary, multinational range of contributors to this volume make it distinctive and a particularly valuable contribution to emerging studies on the impact of war on the lives of children.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:926910190

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The Origins of World War I, 1871-1914 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UVA:X006068333

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Parameters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ignatius Frederick Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0853236321

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The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914 by Ignatius Frederick Clarke Pdf

A selection of prophetic stories written in the quarter-century before the first world war about the conflict-to-come between the British and the Germans. The authors had in common a commitment to anticipate and describe the causes and the consequences of "The Next Great War" which they were convinced would break out--sooner or later--between the major European powers. The editor provides an introduction to 37 extracts selected from the most representative British stories and German accounts. The epilogue is an "account" of the invasion of the US by a victorious Germany. The preface mentions that this is the second volume of a five-volume subseries on future-war fiction, part of the larger series on science fiction texts. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR