Great War, total war : combat and mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | xii, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the German Historical Institute |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4329923 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction Stig F+ rster
- Part I. Basic Reflections
- 1. From cabinet war to total war: the perspective of military doctrine, 1861-1918
- 2. World War I and the theory of total war: reflections on the British and German cases
- Part II. The Changing Realities of Warfare
- 3. World War I and the revolution in logistics
- 4. Mass warfare and the impact of technology
- 5. Total war through new weapons? The use of chemical agents in World War I
- 6. Planning total war? Falkenhayn and the Battle of Verdun 1916
- 7. The most extensive experiment that imagination can produce: violence of war, emotional stress, and German medicine
- Part III. War Against Noncombatants
- 8. War between soldiers and enemy civilians, 1914-1915
- 9. The blockade of Germany and the strategy of starvation
- 10. Total rhetoric, limited war: Germany-s U-boat campaign, 1917-1918
- 11. The first air war against noncombatants: strategic bombing of German cities in World War I
- 12. Bullying the neutrals: the case of the Netherlands
- Part IV. Politicians, Soldiers and the Problem of Unlimited Warfare
- 13. Poincar+¼, Clemenceau, and the quest for total victory
- 14. Strategy and unlimited warfare in Germany
- 15. The strategy of unlimited warfare
- 16. French strategy on the Western Front, 1914-1918
- 17. Strategy and total war in the United States
- Part V. Mobilizing Economies and Finance for War
- 18. War aims, state intervention, and business leadership in Germany: the case of Hugo Stinnes
- 19. Lloyd George and the management of the British war economy
- 20. Better late than never: the American economic war effort, 1917-1918
- 21. How (not) to pay for the war: traditional finance and total war
- Part VI. Societies Mobilized for War
- 22. Mobilizing German society for war
- 23. Women-s wartime services under the cross: patriotic communities in Germany, 1912-1918
- 24. Pandora-s Box: propaganda and war hysteria in the United States during World War I
- 25. Painting and music during and after the Great War: the art of total war
- Index
