The First World War : a concise global history
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書誌事項
The First World War : a concise global history
（Exploring world history）
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780742541450
内容説明
In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. He argues that the war profoundly changed the ways in which people imagined the landscape around them and thought about technology and the environment. Before the war, Europe and its colonies generally regarded industrial technology as an instrument of modernity; the landscape existed to be conquered, divided, and ruled. During and after the war, the costs of conquest became much higher, raising significant doubts about the value of progress. Soldiers experienced profound personal degradation, physical injuries, and mental collapse in the midst of nightmarish, technologically induced environmental conditions, which they vividly remembered when they formed new identities in the postwar world. Although people did not abandon thoughts of technological advance, after the war they had a keener sense of modernity's costs.
Without neglecting traditional themes, Storey's deft interweaving of the role of environment and technology enriches our understanding of the social, political, and military history of the war, not only in Europe, but throughout the world.
目次
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Environment, Technology, and the Origins of War Chapter 3 Optimism, 1914--1916 Chapter 4 Intensification, 1916--1917 Chapter 5 Conclusions: 1918 and Beyond
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pbk: ISBN 9780742541467
内容説明
A second edition of this book is now available. In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey brings to life individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. Without neglecting traditional themes, the author's deft interweaving of the role of environment and technology enriches our understanding of the social, political, and military history of the war, not only in Europe, but throughout the world.
目次
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Environment, Technology, and the Origins of War Chapter 3: Optimism, 1914-1916 Chapter 4: Intensification, 1916-1917 Chapter 5: Conclusions: 1918 and Beyond
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