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  • - Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919
    av Jay (University of Cambridge) Winter
    610,-

    A benchmark in our understanding of the social aspects of World War I, this is one of the few truly comparative studies of that conflict. Expert contributors from several fields, stretching from history to economics, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Europe's great wartime cities.

  • av Claire Morelon
    1 226,-

    "How did it feel to experience the Habsburg Empire's fall into war and revolution? Morelon reconstructs the sights, sounds and material culture of a city in turmoil. From imperial city to nation-state capital, she traces Prague's emerging place within the post-Versailles world order, and what this meant for its citizens"--

  • - War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940
    av Canterbury) Goebel & Stefan (University of Kent
    610 - 1 510,-

    A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.

  • - Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War
    av Joy (University of Melbourne) Damousi
    500 - 1 296,-

    This is a major new study which evaluates the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration.

  • - History and Memory, 1923-2000
    av Dublin) Dolan & Anne (Trinity College
    690 - 1 296,-

    In this book, Anne Dolan explores the tensions between memory and forgetting in twentieth-century Ireland, by examining the methods and rituals of commemoration. The book's main difference from other books lies in its close examination of the legacy of civil war bitterness in Ireland.

  • - The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War
    av Helen B. (King's College London) McCartney
    540 - 1 296,-

    Citizen Soldiers uses letters and official sources to investigate the experience of the British soldier in the First World War. It casts light on the soldier's relationship with home, his attitudes towards war, command and discipline within the army and the importance of local identity to military morale.

  • - Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
    av Maureen (Oregon State University) Healy
    696 - 1 496,-

    Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in Vienna, the capital city. She argues that while Habsburg armies waged military campaigns on distant fronts, women, children, and 'left at home' men waged a protracted, socially devastating war against one another.

  • av K. H. (University of Nottingham) Adler
    610 - 1 296,-

    This book takes a new look at France during and after the German occupation. It challenges traditional chronology that concentrates on the Vichy government and punctures standard interpretations that divide occupied France into resisters and collaborators. Throughout, race - specifically Jewishness - and gender are drawn together in original and illuminating ways.

  •  
    1 486,-

    This is a volume of comparative essays on political and cultural 'mobilization' in the main belligerent countries in Europe during the First World War. It explores how and why the war was supported for so long, and why those states with a strong political support and national integration were ultimately successful.

  • - Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I
    av Knoxville) Liulevicius & Vejas Gabriel (University of Tennessee
    690 - 1 390,-

    This compelling study examines the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front in World War I. It reveals an important legacy of the war, which conditioned German relations with Eastern Europe, especially during later Nazi occupation. It fills a yawning gap in the literature of the Great War.

  •  
    1 296,-

    Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915. Jay Winter has brought together a team of experts to examine how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims.

  • - Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945
    av Michael P. Richards
    690 - 1 576,-

    This study attempts to show how the Spanish Civil War was understood and absorbed, particularly by those who could claim themselves as 'the victors', taking as its main focus the fierce repression and violence of the period, and the role of Catholic and Fascist ideology.

  •  
    440,-

    The vivid and traumatic phenomenon of war provides the basis for a detailed examination of how war has been remembered collectively this century. Material is drawn from Europe, America and Israel to show that small groups of survivors act together in order to preserve a piece of the past.

  • av Matthew (Liverpool Hope University) Stibbe
    710 - 1 410,-

    The first major study of German attitudes towards England during the Great War, 1914-18. This book focuses on the extremity of anti-English feeling in Germany, and on the attempt by writers, propagandists and cartoonists to redefine Britain as the chief enemy of the German people and their cultural heritage.

  • - Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965
    av Paris) Lagrou & Pieter (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    380 - 1 566,-

    This book analyses how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the Second World War. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach, based on extensive archival research. Brilliantly researched and fluently written, this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history.

  • - Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia
    av Illinois) Frommer & Benjamin (Northwestern University
    586 - 1 496,-

    National Cleansing, first published in 2005, examines the prosecution of over one hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. The book illustrates that the prosecution of collaborators and war criminals represented a genuine attempt to confront the crimes of the past.

  • - An Intimate History
    av Heonik (University of Cambridge) Kwon
    386,-

    This ground-breaking study investigates the history and legacy of the Korean War within the realm of intimate human social experience. In doing so, it boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and examines how Korea's civil war memories remain present in the Korean consciousness.

  •  
    690,-

    This is a volume of comparative essays on political and cultural 'mobilization' in the main belligerent countries in Europe during the First World War. It explores how and why the war was supported for so long, and why those states with a strong political support and national integration were ultimately successful.

  • - Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany
    av Bonn) Verhey & Jeffrey (Friedrich Ebert Institute
    746 - 1 296,-

    This book, first published in 2000, analyses German public opinion at the outbreak of the Great War. Jeffrey Verhey's powerful study demonstrates that the myth of war enthusiasm was historically inaccurate. This analysis sheds light on the role of political myths in modern German political culture.

  • - Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture
    av Benjamin (University of Sheffield) Ziemann
    500 - 1 296,-

    This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyses how experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and performative power of public commemoration, Benjamin Ziemann reveals how individual recollections fed into the public narrative of the experience of war.

  • - Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919
     
    610,-

    This 2007 volume tackles the comparative social and economic history of the three capital cities of Britain, France and Germany during and immediately after the First World War. It takes in notions of identity, the various sites and rituals of city life, and civic and popular culture.

  • - Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire
    av Jan Rüger
    696 - 1 510,-

    This book explores the cult of the navy: the ways in which the navy and the sea were celebrated in fleet reviews, naval visits and ship launches during the age of empire. By focusing on this naval theatre, Jan Ruger offers a fascinating new history of the Anglo-German antagonism.

  • - Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944-1945
    av Ingrid (Wageningen Universiteit de Zwarte
    1 116,-

    In this pioneering study, Ingrid de Zwarte offers a comprehensive and multifaceted view of the socio-political context and consequences of the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45. Based on extensive research, she examines the causes and demographic impact of the famine and how it was confronted at different societal levels.

  • av Julia S. Torrie
    1 296,-

    For four years, German soldiers not only stood guard over and fought in France, but also lived their lives. While the everyday experiences of the occupied French population are well-documented, we know much less about the occupiers. The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France and the history of Nazism.

  • - Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War
    av Melissa (University of Oklahoma) Stockdale
    500 - 1 406,-

    This study of Russia's home front mobilization in the Great War explores topics as wide-ranging as the press and propaganda, the Orthodox Church, 'spymania', memorialization, and philanthropy. It should appeal to individuals interested in World War I, nationalism and national identities, citizenship, gender and war, and the Russian revolution.

  • - The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918
     
    696,-

    A comparative study of European cultural and social history during the First World War.

  • - Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia
    av Joy (University of Melbourne) Damousi
    506,-

    This book, first published in 1999, explores how people dealt with the grief process during and immediately after the two world wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, this study makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends and family.

  • av Tracey (University of Essex) Loughran
    500 - 1 310,-

    This book is a study of the formation of the medical diagnosis of shell-shock in First World War Britain. Dr Loughran examines the intellectual resources doctors drew on as they struggled to make sense of nervous collapse and reveals the contribution of shell-shock on the development of psychoanalytic approaches to mind and behaviour.

  • - Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945
    av Aaron William (University of Edinburgh) Moore
    380 - 1 016,-

    This comparative study of Japanese and British civilian descriptions of being bombed in World War II serve as a way to understand the universality of total war. Examining issues of gender, class, and regional and urban history, it confronts how ordinary people were both victims of the air war and helped make it possible.

  • - British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War
    av University of London) Makepeace & Clare (Birkbeck
    406 - 626,-

    A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during the Second World War. Clare Makepeace tells the story of wartime imprisonment through the love, fears, fantasies, loneliness, frustration and guilt that these men felt and the challenges that they faced upon homecoming.

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