The First World War is commonly referred to as an historical watershed, and the nature of that great cataclysm's impact upon European society and culture remains a hotly debated topic. This book is a comparative study, with a broad coverage, enhanced by its interactive treatment of high culture, popular culture, and propaganda.
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"...this work succeeds admirably: the essays on Britain, France, and Germany are informative and often original, but the real strength of this collection rests in the attention it pays to the neglected regions and nations of east central Europe." Journal of Modern History
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It is commonplace to refer to the First World War as an historical watershed, but the nature of that great cataclysm's impact upon European society and culture remains a hotly debated topic. This book offers a comparative study, whose broad comparative sweep is enhanced by its interactive treatment of high culture, popular culture, and propaganda.
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Aviel Roshwald is a Professor of History at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on the comparative history of ethnic politics and nationalism in modern Europe and the Middle East, as well as on European diplomatic history. Together with his colleague John McNeill, he is the convener of the International History Seminar at the Georgetown Institute for Global History, which serves as a forum for scholars from around the country and around the world to present their work in progress.
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The wartime culture of Russia has until recently been little studied for several reasons: the Soviet historiographical enmity towards most of those engaged in it; the near exclusion from literary and art history of things that smell of propaganda or popular culture; and - most important - the absence of a real historical memory of that war in Russia, a memory that was buried beneath the remembrance of the revolutions of 1917 and the civil war that followed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
journalistiek werk, politica della grande guerra, tragic carnival, wartime theater, eerste wereldoorlog, patriotic culture, gramophone industry, trench journals, wartime culture, wartime poetry, wartime literature, intervention campaign, gramophone company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Powers, National Theater, Eastern Europe, German Jewish, Green Balloon, East European Jewish, Geo Milev, German Jews, Central European, Ober Ost, Vilna Troupe, United States, New York, South Slavic, Occupation Government, Romain Rolland, Russian Poland, War Press Office, Agudat Israel, Court Opera, Die Aktion, East European Jewry, Emperor Karl, Flemish Movement, Polish Napoleonic New!
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The wartime culture of Russia has until recently been little studied for several reasons: the Soviet historiographical enmity towards most of those engaged in it; the near exclusion from literary and art history of things that smell of propaganda or popular culture; and - most important - the absence of a real historical memory of that war in Russia, a memory that was buried beneath the remembrance of the revolutions of 1917 and the civil war that followed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
journalistiek werk, politica della grande guerra, tragic carnival, wartime theater, eerste wereldoorlog, patriotic culture, gramophone industry, trench journals, wartime culture, wartime poetry, wartime literature, intervention campaign, gramophone company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Powers, National Theater, Eastern Europe, German Jewish, Green Balloon, East European Jewish, Geo Milev, German Jews, Central European, Ober Ost, Vilna Troupe, United States, New York, South Slavic, Occupation Government, Romain Rolland, Russian Poland, War Press Office, Agudat Israel, Court Opera, Die Aktion, East European Jewry, Emperor Karl, Flemish Movement, Polish Napoleonic New!
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- The Great War: A Novel by Larry W. Poland on 8 pages
- Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins on 5 pages
- Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto) by Jay Winter on 4 pages
- Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus on 4 pages
- Passage Through Armageddon by Bruce Lincoln in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Proof through the Night: Music and the Great War (Includes CD) by Glenn Watkins on 10 pages
- Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Maureen Healy on 5 pages
- Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, the Middle East and Russia, 1914-23 by Aviel Roshwald in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 by Geoff Eley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Jeffrey Verhey in Front Flap, and Back Matter
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