Research Catalog

Title

The Great War, 1914-1918 / Ian F.W. Beckett.

Author

Beckett, Ian F. W. (Ian Frederick William), 1950-

Publication

Harlow, England; New York : Longman, 2001.

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Details

Description

xv, 508 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Modern wars in perspective

Uniform Title

Modern wars in perspective

Subject

• 1914-1918
• World War, 1914-1918

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 480-483) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Another Country? -- Industrialisation and the state -- Ideology and the nation-state -- Guns in August -- Alliances and the European state system -- Imperial Germany and Weltpolitik -- Imperialism, capitalism and militarism -- Vienna and the domestic imperative -- From 'Third Balkan War' to world war -- Over by Christmas -- Expectations of war -- War plans -- The failure of the war plans in the west -- The Eastern Front -- Widening Horizons -- The contribution of empire -- The Balkans and beyond -- Distant waters -- The economics of belligerency and neutrality -- Westerners and Easterners -- Civil-military relations -- The politics of coalition -- Strategy and war aims: the Entente -- Strategy and war aims: the Central Powers -- New Ways of War -- Science and war -- The exercise of command -- The war on land -- The war at sea -- The war in the air -- Nations in Arms -- Conscription and manpower -- The voluntary spirit and its limits -- The experience of military service -- Morale and discipline -- War and the State -- The growth of government -- Economic management -- War and industrial mobilisation -- Food supply -- State welfare -- Management of morale -- War and Society -- Life and death -- Class -- Labour -- Women -- Social mores and leisure pursuits -- War, Politics and Revolution -- Leadership -- Opposition -- Revolution -- Victors and Vanquished -- Defeat and revolution -- The Paris peace conference and the peace settlements -- Political values and the politics of the 'front generation' -- Wastelands?

ISBN

• 0582322499
• 0582322480 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00051508^

OCLC

• 45202076
• SCSB-11263069

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library