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The Great War in history : debates and controversies, 1914 to the present / Jay Winter and Antoine Prost.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; no. 21Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: viii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521850835
  • 0521616336 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Three historiographical configurations -- Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims? -- Generals and ministers: who commanded and how? -- Soldiers: how did they wage war? -- Businessmen, industrialists, and bankers: how was the economic war waged? -- Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution? -- Civilians: how did they make war and survive it? -- Agents of memory: how did people live between remembrance and forgetting? -- The great war in history.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks D522.42.W56 2005 1 Available 33710001001119

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-240) and index.

Three historiographical configurations -- Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims? -- Generals and ministers: who commanded and how? -- Soldiers: how did they wage war? -- Businessmen, industrialists, and bankers: how was the economic war waged? -- Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution? -- Civilians: how did they make war and survive it? -- Agents of memory: how did people live between remembrance and forgetting? -- The great war in history.