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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World

Author : Roger Chickering

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1065 pages

File Size : 30,94 MB

Release : 2012-09-27

Category : History

ISBN : 1316175928

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Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.



The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

Author : David A. Graff

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 854 pages

File Size : 36,94 MB

Release : 2020-10-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1108901190

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Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.



The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 2, Politics and Ideology

Author : Richard Bosworth

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 718 pages

File Size : 19,39 MB

Release : 2017-11-23

Category : History

ISBN : 9781108406406

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War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words, ideas and values with the rival powers expressing divergent claims to justice and controlling news from the front in order to sustain moral and influence international opinion. Part II looks at politics from the perspective of pre-war and wartime diplomacy as well as examining the way in which neutrals were treated and behaved. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of states, politics and ideology on the fate of individuals as occupied and liberated peoples, collaborators and resistors, and as British and French colonial subjects.



Enduring the Great War

Author : Alexander Watson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 377 pages

File Size : 13,86 MB

Release : 2008-04-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1139867253

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This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.



Latin America and the First World War

Author : Stefan Rinke

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 43,93 MB

Release : 2017-02-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1107127203

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This book is a comprehensive study of Latin America during the First World War from a transnational perspective.



A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War

Author : Tim Dayton

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 19,4 MB

Release : 2021-02-04

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9781108475327

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In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement we call Modernism. At the same time a vast amount of non- and anti-Modernist culture was produced, mostly supporting, but also critical of, the US war effort. A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War explores this fraught cultural moment, teasing out the multiple and intricate relationships between an insurgent Modernism, a still-powerful traditional culture, and a variety of cultural and social forces that interacted with and influenced them. Including genre studies, focused analyses of important wartime movements and groups, and broad historical assessments of the significance of the war as prosecuted by the United States on the world stage, this book presents original essays defining the state of scholarship on the American culture of the First World War.



The Origins of the First and Second World Wars

Author : Frank McDonough

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 38,87 MB

Release : 1997-08-21

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780521568616

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This innovative new study analyzes the origins of the First and Second World Wars in one single volume by drawing on a wide range of material, including original sources. In concise, readable chapters, the author surveys the key issues surrounding the causes of both wars, offers an original and critical survey of the conflict of opinion among historians and provides a lively selection of primary documents on major issues. The result is a unique perspective on the origins of the two most devastating military conflicts in world history.



Douglas Haig and the First World War

Author : J. P. Harris

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 23,4 MB

Release : 2008-11-06

Category : History

ISBN : 0521898021

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Book Description

Contains primary source material.



The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, Global War

Author : Jay Winter

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1357 pages

File Size : 31,94 MB

Release : 2014-01-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1316025527

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This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond that which anyone had anticipated in 1914. Adopting a global perspective, the volume analyses the spatial impact of the war and the subsequent ripple effects that occurred both regionally and across the world. It explores how imperial powers devoted vast reserves of manpower and material to their war efforts and how, by doing so, they changed the political landscape of the world order. It also charts the moral, political and legal implications of the changing character of war and, in particular, the collapse of the distinction between civilian and military targets.



The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society

Author : Jay Winter

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1388 pages

File Size : 47,16 MB

Release : 2014-01-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1316025543

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Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families and medical authorities adapted to the challenges of war and the shift that occurred in gender roles and behaviour that would subsequently reshape society. Adopting a transnational approach, this volume surveys the war's treatment of populations at risk, including refugees, minorities and internees, to show the full extent of the disaster of war and, with it, the stubborn survival of irrational kindness and the generosity of spirit that persisted amidst the bitterness at the heart of warfare, with all its contradictions and enduring legacies.