The Great War 1914-1918 / Ian F.W. Beckett. Great War

Collection type	Library
Author	Beckett, I. F. W. (Ian Frederick William);
Call Number	940.3 B396g
Document type	Monograph
Year	2007.
Pagination	xxix, 813 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher	Longman,
Note	Previous ed.: 2001. Includes bibliographical references and index. "In this seminal work, Ian F. W. Beckett challenges the cliched images of the Great War that have come to dominate popular culture. Rather than dismissing the War as an exercise in mindless futility, he argues that, on the contrary, it was vital to the national interests of its participants, and shows how what originated as a European affair became a global event involving not only the extended colonial empires of European nations but also Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United Sta tes."--BOOK JACKET.
Place made	Harlow, England :

Abstract

g1.$tAnother country? --$tIndustrialisation and the state --$tIdeology and the nation-state --$g2.$tGuns in August --$tAlliances and the European state system --$tImperial Germany and Weltpolirik --$tImperialism, capitalism and militarism --$tVienna and t he domestic imperative --$tFrom 'Third Balkan War' to world war --$g3.$tOver by Christmas --$tExpectations of war --$tWar plans --$tThe failure of the war plans in the west --$tThe Eastern Front --$g4.$tWidening horizons --$tThe contribution of empire --$ tThe Balkans and beyond --$tDistant waters --$tThe economics of belligerency and neutrality --$g5.$tWesterners and Easterners --$tCivil-military relations --$tThe politics of coalition --$tStrategy and war aims: the Entente --$tStrategy and war aims: the Central Powers --$g6.$tNew ways of war --$tScience and war --$tThe exercise of command --$tThe war on land --$tThe war at sea --$tThe war in the air --$g7.$tNations in arms --$tConscription and manpower --$tThe voluntary spirit and its limits --$tThe expe rience of military service --$tMorale and discipline --$g8.$tWar and the state --$tThe growth of government --$tEconomic management --$tWar and industrial mobilisation --$tFood supply --$tState welfare --$tManagement of morale --$g9.$tWar and society --$t Life and death --$tClass --$tLabour --$tWomen --$tSocial mores and leisure pursuits --$g10.$tWar, politics and revolution --$tLeadership --$tOpposition --$tRevolution --$g11.$tVictors and vanquished --$tDefeat and revolution --$tThe Paris peace conference and the peace settlements --$tPolitical values and the politics of the 'front generation' --$g12.$tWastelands? --$tMemory and commemoration --$tWar and culture --$tWar and the silver screen --$tWar and history.