The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society

Winter, Jay (ed)

ISBN 10: 0521766842 / ISBN 13: 9780521766845

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2014

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A comprehensive, transnational account of the social and cultural history of the First World War. Editor(s): Winter, Dr Jay. Series: The Cambridge History of the First World War. Num Pages: 779 pages, 1 b/w illus. 48 colour illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBG; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 227 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1422. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521766842
• ISBN 13: 9780521766845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families and medical authorities adapted to the challenges of war and the shift that occurred in gender roles and behaviour that would subsequently reshape society. Adopting a transnational approach, this volume surveys the war's treatment of populations at risk, including refugees, minorities and internees, to show the full extent of the disaster of war and, with it, the stubborn survival of irrational kindness and the generosity of spirit that persisted amidst the bitterness at the heart of warfare, with all its contradictions and enduring legacies.

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.