Roger Chickering

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

Roger Chickering offers the most comprehensive history ever written of a German city at war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1036g
• ISBN-13: 9780521109772
• ISBN-10: 0521109779
• Artikelnr.: 26152811

Autorenporträt

Roger Chickering is Professor of History, BMW Center for German and European Studies, at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. His numerous works on modern German and European history include, as editor with Stig Forster, The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 (2003), and Imperial Germany and the Great War (1998, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: total war and total history
1. The loveliest place to live in Germany
2. The beginning
3. Visitations
4. Tools and toils of war
5. Collecting things
6. Breakdown
7. The war on the senses
8. Public intimacies
9. War and locality
10. The national community in town
11. Class
12. Transections
13. Fragmentation
14. Exhaustion.