Total war and historical change : Europe, 1914-1955

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Title:

Author:

Emsley, Clive.

ISBN:

9780335207947

9780335207930

Publication Information:

Buckingham ; Phildelphia, Pa. : Open University Press, 2001.

Physical Description:

viii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Chiefly collections of previously published extracts, articles, etc.

Contents:

Total war -- The persistence of the old regime -- The birth of the modern -- The origins of the war -- Italian peasant women and the First World War -- Germany after the First World War -- Recasting bourgeois Europe -- Hitler's foreign policy -- Hitler's war and the German economy - a reinterpretation -- One day in Jozefow - initiation to mass murder -- The effects of World War II on French society and politics -- The "levelling of class" -- "Barbarossa" - the Soviet response, 1941 - World War II and the social change in Germany.

Abstract:

"This collection provides a major resource for the study of 20th century war and defence in European history and exemplifies different historical methods and approaches. The authors are drawn from a range of disciplines including those of economics, literature and the arts as well as military, social and political history, and together they raise some of the most significant problems and debates in the study of history." "Level: undergraduate; postgraduate."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Europe.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Europe.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- History -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Emsley, Clive.

Marwick, Arthur, 1936-

Simpson, Wendy, 1941-

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What do we mean by social and cultural change? What is the nature of total war? How do wars come to happen? What are the consequences of war? In exploring these four key themes, this collection provides a major resource for the study of 20th century war and defence in European history and exemplifies different historical methods and approaches. The authors are drawn from a range of disciplines including those of economics, literature and the arts as well as military, social and political history, and together they raise some of the most significant problems and debates in the study of history. The essays range from standard seminal works by Stanley Hoffmann, Arno J. Mayer and Charles Maier to more recent contributions by Richard Bessell, Mark Harrison and Hew Strachan.