State, society, and mobilization in Europe during the First World War /edited by John Horne.

State, society, and mobilization in Europe during the First World War /edited by John Horne. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1997. - 1 online resource (xv, 292 pages) - Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 3 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: mobilizing for 'total war', 1914-1918 / German artists, writers and intellectuals and the meaning of war, 1914-1918 / Children and the primary schools of France, 1914-1918 / War, 'national education' and the Italian primary school, 1915-1918 / Mobilizing labour and socialist militants in Paris during the Great War / Between integration and rejection: the Jewish community in Germany, 1914-1918 / Wackes at war: Alsace-Lorraine and the failure of German national mobilization, 1914-1918 / Discipline and morale in the British army, 1917-1918 / Remobilizing the citizen-soldier through the French army mutinies of 1917 / The German army, the authoritarian nation-state and total war / Morale and patriotism in the Austro-Hungarian army, 1914-1918 / Remobilizing for 'total war': France and Britain, 1917-1918 / Mobilization and demobilization in Germany, 1916-1919 / The Italian experience of 'total' mobilization, 1915-1920 / John Horne -- Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau -- Andrea Fava -- Jean-Louis Robert -- Christhard Hoffmann -- Alan Kramer -- David Englander -- Leonard V. Smith -- Wilhelm Deist -- Mark Cornwall -- John Horne -- Richard Bessel -- Paul Corner and Giovanna Procacci.

This volume examines the process of political and cultural mobilisation in the face of industrialised mass death during the First World War.



9781461949138


World War, 1914-1918--Europe.
Preparedness.
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Europe.
War and society.


Electronic Books.

D523 / .S738 1997