Great War in History - Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Jay Winter is Professor of History at Yale University. He is a specialist on the First World War and its impact on the 20th century. His numerous publications include Sites of Memory! Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1996) and 1914-1918. The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1998). Antoine Prost is Professor of History at the Universite de Paris I. He is the author and editor of several books! including Republican Identities in War and Peace! Representations of France in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2002) and The Emergence of European Trade Unionism (with Jean-Louis Robert and Chris Wrigley! 2004). Zusammenfassung Since the Armistice! a vast literature has been produced on the First World War. This 2005 book is a comparative analysis of the ways in which this history has been written. It identifies three generations of historians! film directors and writers who have provided military! social and cultural interpretations of the war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Three historiographical configurations; 2. Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims?; 3. Generals and ministers: who commanded and how?; 4. Soldiers: how did they wage war?; 5. Businessmen! industrialists and bankers: how was the economic war waged?; 6. Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution?; 7. Civilians: how did they make war and survive it?; 8. Agents of memory: how did people live between remembrance and forgetting?; 9. The Great War in history; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Antoine Prost, Dr Jay Prost Winter, Jay Winter, Jay (Yale University Winter, Jay Prost Winter
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 21.07.2005
• EAN: 9780521850834
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85083-4
• Seiten: 264
• Serien: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Mode; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Mode
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika