The Cambridge History of the First World War: The State: Vol 2

Winter, Jay (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0521766532 / ISBN 13: 9780521766531

Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 2014

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792 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cambridge History of the First World War: The State: Vol 2
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521766532
• ISBN 13: 9780521766531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.55 kilograms

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Synopsis

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to, and were deformed by, the near-unbearable pressures of war. Every state involved faced issues of military-civilian relations, parliamentary reviews of military policy, and the growth of war economies; and yet their particular form and significance varied in every national case. Written by a global team of historical experts, this volume sets new standards in the political history of the waging of war in an authoritative new narrative which addresses problems of logistics, morale, innovation in tactics and weapons systems, the use and abuse of science; all of which were ubiquitous during the conflict.

About the Author

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, Connecticut. He came to Yale from the University of Cambridge, where he took his doctorate and where he taught history from 1979 to 2001 and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995); Remembering War (2006) and Dreams of Peace and Freedom (2006). In 1997, he received an Emmy award for the best documentary series of the year as co-producer and co-writer of 'The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century', an eight-hour series broadcast on PBS and the BBC, and shown subsequently in 28 countries. He is one of the founders of the Historial de la grande guerre, the international museum of the Great War, in Péronne, Somme, France. His biography of René Cassin, written with Antoine Prost and published in French in 2011, was published in an English edition by Cambridge University Press in 2013.