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, c2014
2nd ed
- : cloth
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
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. With reorganized chapters designed to enhance classroom use, this edition brings the text up to date with current scholarship and new maps for the Great War's centennial.
The author argues that the Great 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 worldwide.
目次
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Empires, Technologies, and the Origins of War
Chapter 3: European Rivalries
Chapter 4: The Crisis of 1914
Chapter 5: The Western Front, 1914-1915
Chapter 6: The War in Eastern and Southern Europe, 1914-1915
Chapter 7: The World War in Africa, 1914-1916
Chapter 8: The War at Sea, 1914-1915
Chapter 9: The War in the Middle East, 1914-1916
Chapter 10: The Offensives of 1916
Chapter 11: Naval War and the U.S. Entry, 1916-1917
Chapter 12: The Strains of Total War
Chapter 13: The Offensives of 1917
Chapter 14: Allied Empire-Building, 1916-1918
Chapter 15: The War's End, 1918
Chapter 16: The Peace Settlements
Chapter 17: Understanding and Remembering the War
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