A companion to World War I
By: edited by John Horne.
Contributors: Horne, John, 1949-
Series: Blackwell companions to world history
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9781405123860
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
Description: A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history. Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War. Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the wars legacy. Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Origins; title: The war imagined : 1890-1914 / Gerd Krumeich; title: The war explained : 1914 to the present / John Keiger; title: pt. 2. The military conflict; title: The war experienced : command, strategy, and tactics, 1914-1918 / Hew Strachan; title: War in the West, 1914-1916 / Holger Herwig; title: War in the East and Balkans, 1914-18 / Denis Showalter; title: The Italian front, 1915-18 / Giorgio Rochat; title: The Turkish War, 1914-1918 / Ulrich Trumpener; title: The war in Africa / David Killingray; title: Western front, 1917-18 / Trevor Wilson and Robin Prior; title: The war at sea / Paul G. Halpern; title: War in the air / John H. Morrow; title: pt. 3. Faces of war; title: Combat / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau; title: Atrocities and massacres / Alan Kramer; title: War aims and neutrality / Jean-Jacques Becker; title: Industrial mobilization and war economies / Theo Balderston; title: Faiths, ideologies and the "cultures of war" / Annette Becker; title: Demography / Jay Winter; title: Gender (masculinity and femininity) / Susan Grayzel; title: Labour, pacifism, and revolution / John Horne; title: Medicine and psychology (including shell-shock) / Sophie Delaporte; title: Science and technology / Anne Rasmussen; title: Intellectuals and writers / Christophe Prochasson; title: The visual arts and the war / Annette Becker; title: Film and the war / Pierre Sorlin; title: pt. 4. States, nations, and empires; title: Austria-Hungary and "Yugoslavia" / Mark Cornwall; title: Belgium / Sophie de Schaepdrijver; title: Britain and Ireland / Adrian Gregory; title: France / Leonard Smith; title: Germany / Gerhard Hirschfeld; title: German-occupied Eastern Europe / Vejas Liulevicius; title: Italy / Antonio Gibelli; title: Russia / Eric Lohr; title: Turkey / Hamit Boazarslan; title: USA / Jennifer Keene; title: French and British empires / Robert Aldrich and Chris Hilliard; title: pt. 5. Legacies; title: The peace settlement, 1919-1939 / Carole Fink; title: War after the war : conflicts, 1919-23 / Peter Gatrell; title: Mourning and memory / Laurence van Ypersele.