Robert E Blobaum

A Minor Apocalypse

Warsaw During the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

In A Minor Apocalypse, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war" of 1914-1918. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great War, Blobaum guides his readers through spy scares, bombardments, mass migratory movements, and the Russian evacuation of 1915.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781501705236
• ISBN-10: 1501705237
• Artikelnr.: 47088314

Autorenporträt

Robert Blobaum is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of History at West Virginia University. He is the author of Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904-1907 and editor of Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland, both from Cornell.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Frontline City
2. Living on the Edge
3. Wartime Crisis Management and Its Failure
4. Poles and Jews
5. Women and the Warsaw Home Front
6. Warsaw's Wartime Culture Wars
Conclusion: A Minor Apocalypse