Anticipating Total War
The German and American Experiences, 1871–1914

Table of Contents

Introduction Roger Chickering and Stig Förster
Part I. Germany, The United States and Total War:
1. Total war: the use and abuse of a concept Roger Chickering
2. Different path to war: a comparative study of militarism and imperialism in the United States and Imperial Germany, 1871–1914 Irmgard Steinisch
Part II. War and Society:
3. The political economy of warfare in America, 1865–1914 Paul A. C. Kiostinen
4. Hugo Stinnes and the prospect of war before 1914 Gerald D. Feldman
5. War preparations and ethnic and racial relations in the United States Bruce White
6. Religion and war in Imperial Germany Gangolf Hübinger
7. Socializing American youth to be citizen-soldiers David I. MacLeod
8. Preparing German youth for war Derek S. Linton
9. Heroes and would-be heroes: veterans' and reservists' associations in Imperial Germany Thomas Rohkrämer
10. Mobilizing philanthropy in the service of war: the female rituals of care in the New Germany, 1871–1914 Jean H. Quataert
Part III. Memory and Anticipation: War and Culture:
11. The American debate over modern war, 1871–1914 John Whiteclay Chambers II
12. Whose war? Whose nation? Tensions in the memory of the Franco-German War of 1870–1 Alfred Kelly
13. War preparations and national identity in Imperial Germany Volker R. Berghahn
14. Military imagination in the United States, 1815–1917 David F. Trask
15. Dreams and nightmares: German military leadership and the images of future warfare, 1871–1914 Stig Förster
16. 'A calamity to civilization': Theodore Roosevelt and the danger of war in Europe Raimund Lammersdorf
Part IV. The Experience of War:
17. Total war on the American Indian Frontier Robert M. Utley
18. 'The fellows can just starve': on wars of 'pacification' in the African colonies of Imperial Germany and the concept of 'total war' Trutz von Trotha
19. Was the Philippine-American war a 'total war'? Glenn Anthony May
20. An army on vacation? The German war in China, 1900–1 Sabine Dabringhaus
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