Roger Chickering / Stig Förster (eds.)

Great War, Total War

Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914 1918
Herausgeber: Chickering, Roger; Mauch, Christof; Forster, Stig

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2000 volume analyses the First World War in light of the concept of 'total war'. Leading scholars explore the efforts of soldiers, statesmen and civilians to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.

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Produktdetails

• Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9780521026376
• ISBN-10: 0521026377
• Artikelnr.: 21678227

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stig Förster; Part I. Basic Reflections: 1. From cabinet war
to total war: the perspective of military doctrine, 1861-1918 Hew Strachan;
2. World War I and the theory of total war: reflections on the British and
German cases Roger Chickering; Part II. The Changing Realities of Warfare:
3. World War I and the revolution in logistics Martin van Creveld; 4. Mass
warfare and the impact of technology Dennis E. Showalter; 5. Total war
through new weapons? The use of chemical agents in World War I Rolf-Dieter
Müller; 6. Planning total war? Falkenhayn and the Battle of Verdun 1916
Holger Afflerbach; 7. The most extensive experiment that imagination can
produce: violence of war, emotional stress, and German medicine Wolfgang U.
Eckart; Part III. War Against Noncombatants: 8. War between soldiers and
enemy civilians, 1914-15 John Horne and Alan Kramer; 9. The blockade of
Germany and the strategy of starvation Avner Offer; 10. Total rhetoric,
limited war: Germany's U-boat campaign, 1917-18 Holger H. Herwig; 11. The
first air war against noncombatants: strategic bombing of German cities in
World War I Christian Geinitz; 12. Bullying the neutrals: the case of the
Netherlands Marc Frey; Part IV. Politicians, Soldiers and the Problem of
Unlimited Warfare: 13. Poincaré, Clemenceau, and the quest for total
victory J. F. V. Keiger; 14. Strategy and unlimited warfare in Germany:
Moltke, Falkenhayn, and Ludendorff Wilhelm Deist; 15. The strategy of
unlimited warfare: Kitchener, Robertson, and Haig David French; 16. French
strategy on the Western Front, 1914-18 David Stevenson; 17. Strategy and
total war in the United States Russell F. Weigley; Part V. Mobilizing
Economies and Finance for War: 18. War aims, state intervention, and
business leadership in Germany: the case of Hugo Stinnes Gerald D. Feldman;
19. Lloyd George and the management of the British war economy Keith
Grieves; 20. Better late than never: the American economic war effort,
1917-18 Elisabeth Glaser; 21. How (not) to pay for the war: traditional
finance and total war Niall Ferguson; Part VI. Societies Mobilized for War:
22. Mobilizing German society for war Richard Bessel; 23. Women's wartime
services under the cross: patriotic communities in Germany, 1912-18 Jean H.
Quataert; 24. Pandora's Box: propaganda and war hysteria in the United
States during World War I Jörg Nagler; 25. Painting and music during and
after the Great War: the art of total war Arthur Marwick; Index.