Adam R Seipp

The Ordeal of Peace

Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917 1921

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking a transnational perspective on demobilization this study demonstrates that the experience of mass industrial war generated remarkably similar pressures within both the defeated and victorious countries. Using as examples the important provincial centres of Munich and Manchester, it examines the experiences of European urban-dwellers from the last year of the war until the early 1920s, showing how peace could bring unexpected difficulties to economies and societies that had rapidly and fully adapted to the demands of industrial world war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781138265943
• ISBN-10: 1138265942
• Artikelnr.: 57045492

Autorenporträt

Adam R. Seipp is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Munich
Manchester
and the demobilization of Europe. 1917-1921; Manchester. Munich
and urban Europe in 1914. Section I Visions of the End: 1917-18 and the Beginnings of Demobilization: 'Do something!': Manchester in transition and war
1917-18; An immeasurable sacrifice of blood and treasure: Munich at war
1917-18. Section II 'The Man Afterwards Changed Completely': Demobilizations
Homecomings
and Transformations: 'The fabric of Europe and the world was being remade': the Armistice and after in Manchester; 'We don't want gratitude
we want our rights': demobilization
violence
and politics in Munich
1919. Section III 'The Dregs of this Bitter Chalice': Crisis and the End of Demobilization
1920-1921: 'Ordeal by peace': Manchester 1920-21; Scapegoats for a lost war; the crisis of demobilization in Munich
1920-21; Conclusion: ending and beginning again; Bibliography; Index.