Home Fires Burning
Subtitle: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: April 5, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780807848371
Subjects: Central government policies; European history: First World War; Social history; Sociology, Social Studies; First World War, 1914-1918; History - Military / War; Europe - Germany; Women's Studies - General; History: World; Germany; Military - World War I; Berlin; World War I; political history; social history; Germany; working-class women; domestic policy; military policy; press; police; urban; class; gender; nation; democracy; civil rights; entitlements; mass politics; twentieth century; History / Military / World War I; Berlin (Germany); 20th century; Berlin; History; Women; World War, 1914-1918
First sentence: Germany entered the war in 1914 a country in which rapid industrialization and urbanization had helped to produce a polarized society, often discontented and anomic, a nation that inspired both great pride and a gnawing sense of inadequacy among its subjects.
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