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The First World War

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The First World War

A Concise Global History
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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.

Author Biography

William Kelleher Storey is professor of history at Millsaps College. He is 2013 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Mississippi Professor of the Year.
Release date NZ
May 15th, 2014
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Country of Publication
United States
Edition
Second Edition
Illustrations
1 Tables, unspecified; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Pages
218
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions
162x235x21
ISBN-13
9781442226807
Product ID
22111564

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