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Author : Bernd Hüppauf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110817256
Author : Heather Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521117586
First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War.
Author : Matthew D'Auria,Mark Hewitson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000169850
This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war. Rejecting the assumption that violence is simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of collective sadism, this book considers it ‘a cultural act’ that needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment of its history and shaped by its language. Traditional vocabulary and language seem inadequate to describe soldiers’ experience of modern warfare. The problem for writers is to depict and render intelligible a dramatically unprecedented reality through recourse to something familiar. For some historians and literary critics, the absurdity of the First World War has shaped our ironic and disenchanted reading of the entire twentieth century. Yet these ways of coping with the urge to communicate inexpressible feelings and emotions in most cases are not sufficient to overcome the incoherence of the sentiments felt and the events witnessed. The contributors attempt to address the questions and issues that are posed by the highly ambiguous views, texts, and representations examined in this volume. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’Histoire.
Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038431
Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.
Author : Samir Khalaf
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231124775
Khalaf argues that historically internal grievances have been magnified or deflected to become the source of international conflict. From the beginning, he shows, foreign interventions have consistently exacerbated internal problems."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351885676
Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows, the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier, impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played an important role in developing ideas of a national war and functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of war.
Author : Stefan Goebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521854153
A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Author : Corey Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199278213
Media and the Making of Modern Germany provides the first full account of the expansion of the mass media in Germany up to the Second World War, examining how the rise of film, radio, recorded music, popular press, and advertising fitted into the wider development of social, political, and cultural life.
Author : Franz Kernic
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658405212
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the various social science approaches to explaining and interpreting war, peace and the military. Its central aim is to trace and reconstruct those basic assumptions constructed and 'thought processes' undertaken by modern social sciences in their research and conceptualization of military violence and the use of force. In addition to such reconstruction, the aim is also to enquire into the preconditions of such thought. This study therefore eschews the development of an explicit 'strategy' (in the sense of a research strategy), but instead is much more concerned with thinking about its subject matter by means of re-thinking and reflecting upon different theoretical approaches and problems. The investigation includes a critical reexamination of the tradition of military-sociological research from the beginning of modern sociology to late-twentieth century theoretical approaches regarding the security-focused and/or war-driven aspects of modern society.
Author : Philip K. Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Air warfare
ISBN : 0333670264
Modernity and War explores and assesses the development of war in the modern period. The book examines the contradiction between the optimistic view of social progress in the West and the actual involvement of Western states in mass violence. The author explains the violence of the modern form of war by analysing cultural trends in Western states and their connections to racism, nationalism and narcissism. The text also explains how the practice of air warfare distances Western citizens from the consequences of contemporary military violence.
Author : James Dawes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674030265
A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191505546
From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume I: Devastation covers the period from 1912 to 1938. It is divided into two parts, the first associated with the prelude to, actuality of, and aftermath of the Great War and imperial collapse, the second the period of provisional 'New Europe' reformulation as well as post-imperial Stalinist, Nazi - and Kemalist - consolidation up to 1938. Levene also explores the crystallisation of truly toxic anti-Jewish hostilities, the implication being that the immediate origins of the Jewish genocides in the Second World War are to be found in the First.
Author : Tim Grady
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300231236
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany’s endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military (12,000 of whom died), as well as the various activities Jewish communities supported at home, such as raising funds for the war effort and securing vital food supplies. However, Grady’s research goes much deeper: he shows that German Jews were never at the periphery of Germany’s warfare, but were in fact heavily involved. The author finds that many German Jews were committed to the same brutal and destructive war that other Germans endorsed, and he discusses how the conflict was in many ways lived by both groups alike. What none could have foreseen was the dangerous legacy they created together, a legacy that enabled Hitler’s rise to power and planted the seeds of the Holocaust to come.
Author : Nadine Rossol,Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845775
The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and pivotal period of German and European history and a laboratory of modernity. The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic provides an unsurpassed panorama of German history from 1918 to 1933, offering an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the fascinating history of the Weimar Republic.
Author : John Aloysius McCarthy,Walter Grünzweig,Thomas Koebner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 157181034X
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of American foreign policy away from "old" Europe, long-established patterns of interaction between Germany and the U.S. have come under review. Although seemingly disconnected from the cultural and intellectual world, political developments were not without their influence on the humanities and their curricula during the past century. In retrospect, we can speak of the many different roles Germany has played in American eyes. The Many Faces of Germany seeks to acknowledge the importance of those incarnations for the study of German culture and history on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the major questions raised by the contributors is whether the transformations in the transatlantic dynamics and in the importance of Germany for the U.S. have had a major influence on the study of things German in the U.S. internally. The volume gathers together leading voices of the older and younger generations of social historians, literary scholars, film critics, and cultural historians.