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CAPITAL CITIES AT WAR
PARIS, LONDON, BERLIN 1914-1919 |
| By: |
Jay Winter, Jean-Louis Robert |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£85.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0511599617 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780511599613 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2009 |
| Series: |
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare 2 |
| Description: |
One of the few interdisciplinary studies of wartime available and a model for research in social history. |
| Synopsis: |
This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating to the economy and the question of whether the state of the capitals contributed to victory or defeat. Expert contributors in fields stretching from history, demography, anthropology, economics, and sociology to the history of medicine, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, as well as representing the best of recent research in their own fields. Capital Cities at War, one of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, will transform studies of the conflict, and is likely to become a paradigm for research on other wars. |
| Illustrations: |
22 b/w illus. 6 maps 71 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |