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The Cambridge History of the First World War

Volume 3. Civil Society

Part of The Cambridge History of the First World War

Editor: Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut

Jay Winter, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Martha Hanna, Manon Pignot, John Horne, Laura Lee Downs, Susan R. Grayzel, Margaret Higonnet, Joanna Bourke, Heather Jones, Laurence Van Ypersele, Peter Gatrell, Philippe Nivet, Panikos Panayi, Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Annette Becker, Anne Rasmussen, Leo van Bergen, Joy Damousi, Nicolas Beaupre, Adrian Gregory, Laurent Veray, Bruce Scates, Rebecca Wheatley, Antoine Prost

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Date Published: February 2016
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isbn: 9781316601433

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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.
- The first transnational social and cultural history of the First World War, addressing themes common to all nations at conflict
- Offers the first full account of the legacy of the war
- Features leading historians from across the world
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'… both scholarly and deftly drafted, a joy to read. It provides broad as well as deep analysis of just about every conceivable facet of this global catastrophe. It deserves close reading and contemplation.' Len Shurtleff, World War One Historical Association
'The global perspective on the war, represented in these volumes, adds further layers of complexity to our understanding of this foundational moment in modern history. The conjunction of early twentieth-century patterns of globalization and industrialized great power war was singular, distinguishing it from earlier European conflicts fought across the globe and the Second World War, which followed the collapse of globalization in the 1930s.' William Mulligan, European History Quarterly
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- Date Published: February 2016
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316601433
- length: 763 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 34 mm
- weight: 1.32kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 48 colour illus. 1 table
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction to Volume 3 Jay Winter
Part I. Private Life: Introduction to Part I Jay Winter and Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau
1. The couple Martha Hanna
2. Children Manon Pignot
3. Families Jay Winter
Part II. Gender at Home: Introduction to Part II John Horne and Jay Winter
4. War work Laura Lee Downs
5. Gender at home Susan R. Grayzel
6. At the Front Margaret Higonnet
7. Gender roles in killing zones Joanna Bourke
Part III. Populations at Risk: Introduction to Part III Heather Jones and Laurence Van Ypersele
8. Refugees and exiles Peter Gatrell and Philippe Nivet
9. Minorities Panikos Panayi
10. Populations under occupation Sophie de Schaepdrijver
11. Captive civilians Annette Becker
Part IV. Bodies in Pain: Introduction to Part IV Jay Winter and Anne Rasmussen
12. Military medicine Leo van Bergen
13. Shell shock Jay Winter
14. The Spanish Flu Anne Rasmussen
15. Mourning practices Joy Damousi
Part V. The Social History of Cultural Life: Introduction to Part V Nicolas Beaupre and Annette Becker
16. Mobilising minds Anne Rasmussen
17. Beliefs and religion Adrian Gregory
18. Soldier-writers and poets Nicolas Beaupre
19. Cinema Laurent Veray
20. Arts Annette Becker
21. War memorials Bruce Scates and Rebecca Wheatley
Part VI. A Reckoning: Costs and Outcomes: Introduction to Part VI Jay Winter
22. The dead Antoine Prost
23. The living John Horne
24. The Great War at its centenary John Horne
25. Visual essay: civil society Annette Becker.
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Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
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.
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Jay Winter, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Martha Hanna, Manon Pignot, John Horne, Laura Lee Downs, Susan R. Grayzel, Margaret Higonnet, Joanna Bourke, Heather Jones, Laurence Van Ypersele, Peter Gatrell, Philippe Nivet, Panikos Panayi, Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Annette Becker, Anne Rasmussen, Leo van Bergen, Joy Damousi, Nicolas Beaupre, Adrian Gregory, Laurent Veray, Bruce Scates, Rebecca Wheatley, Antoine Prost