Socialism and the Challenge of War (Rle the First World War): Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18, Winter Jay M., Jay Winter M.
Название: Britain and the Origins of the First World War ISBN: 033373467X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333734674 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5968 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever.
While retaining the basic argument that Britain went to war in 1914 not as a result of internal pressures but as a response to external events, Steiner and Neilson reject recent arguments that Britain became involved because of fears of an 'invented' German menace, or to defend her Empire. Instead, placing greater emphasis than before on the role of Russia, the authors convincingly argue that Britain entered the war in order to preserve the European balance of power and the nation's favourable position within it. Lucid and comprehensive, Britain and the Origins of the First World War brings together the bureaucratic, diplomatic, economic, strategical and ideological factors that led to Britain's entry into the Great War, and remains the most complete survey of the pre-war situation.
Описание: This volume describes and analyses the methods Germany used to reinforce Spain?s independence thereby preventing Madrid?s entry into the war on the Allied side. While there have been many studies dealing with the wartime economic histories of Holland, Switzerland, Denmark and Iceland, Spain, physically large and strategically situated has been largely ignored, with little American study of Spanish relations with the European belligerents having been done. Particular attention is paid to the forceful personality of Spanish King Alfonso XIII, who shrewdly used his special friendship with Kaiser Wilhelm II for Spanish profit: he remained a Francophile who shrewdly manipulated the Germans into thinking he favoured their side. At the same time Alfonso fended off the embrace of the Entente.
Anglo-American relations were transformed during the First World War. Britain was already in long-term economic decline relative to the United States, but this decline was accelerated by the war, which was militarily a victory for Britain, but economically a catastrophe.
This book sets out the economic, and in particular, the financial relations between the two powers during the war, setting it in the context of the more familiar political and diplomatic relationship. Particular attention is paid to the British war missions sent out to the USA, which were the agents for much of the financial and economic negotiation, and which are rescued here from underserved historical obscurity.
Описание: An exploration of British culture during the American War of Independence, focusing on the formation of competing notions of masculinity. Authors discussed include Burke, Reynolds, Sheridan and Chatterton. The book will interest scholars and students of literary and political discourse in the eighteenth century.
Автор: Turner John Название: Britain and the First World War (Rle the First World War) ISBN: 1138022594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138022591 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 17303 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book gives students an informed insight into the British experience in the First World War. The contributors, all established First World War historians, have drawn on their own research and secondary sources to give a succinct account of politics, diplomacy, strategy and social developments during a period of dramatic change. Each chapter gives a concise account of its subject and the chapters are well supported by maps and tables. This is an important textbook for school students and undergraduates which bridges the gap between specialized research on the First World War and the needs of the student reader.
Описание: This volume covers the essential facts about Britain?s role in the First World War, not only militarily but also from a domestic point of view: the political and economic organisation of Britain for war, the extension of state control, the problems set by shortages of shipping and food. The book goes beyond the military defeat of Germany and her Allies to the armistice of November 11, 1918, the Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles.
Автор: Yorke Название: Britain, Northern Rhodesia and the First World War ISBN: 1137435771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137435774 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13774 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An insightful account of the devastating impact of the Great War, upon the already fragile British colonial African state of Northern Rhodesia. Deploying extensive archival and rare evidence from surviving African veterans, it investigates African resistance at this time.
Автор: White Bonnie Название: Women`s Land Army in First World War Britain ISBN: 1137363894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137363893 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13774 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women`s Land Army, a national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only recruit an army of women workers, but to also dispel public fears that Britain`s Land Girls would be defeminized and devalued by their wartime experiences.
How did Russia develop a modern national identity, and what role did the military play? Sanborn examines tsarist and Soviet armies of the early twentieth century to show how military conscription helped to bind citizens and soldiers into a modern political community. The experience of total war, he shows, provided the means by which this multiethnic and multiclass community was constructed and tested.
Drafting the Russian Nation is the first archivally based study of the relationship between military conscription and nation-building in a European country. Stressing the importance of violence to national political consciousness, Sanborn shows how national identity was formed and maintained through the organized practice of violence. The cultural dimensions of the "military body" are explored as well, especially in relation to the nationalization of masculinity.
The process of nation-building set in motion by military reformers culminated in World War I, when ethnically diverse conscripts fought together in total war to preserve their national territory. In the ensuing Civil War, the army's effort was directed mainly toward killing the political opposition within the "nation." While these complex conflicts enabled the Bolsheviks to rise to power, the massive violence of war even more fundamentally constituted national political life.
Not all minorities were easily assimilated. The attempt to conscript natives of Central Asia for military service in 1916 proved disastrous, for example. Jews, also identified as non-nationals, were conscripted but suffered intense discrimination within the armed forces because they were deemed to be inherently unreliable and potentially disloyal.
Drafting the Russian Nation is rich with insights into the relation of war to national life. Students of war and society in the twentieth century will find much of interest in this provocative study.
Описание: This volume comprehensively describes how British farmers coped with the problems of shortage of labour and other factors of production, as well as assessing how well agriculture performed as a supplier of food to the nation. Use of previously neglected records provides much evidence on issues such as the deployment of substitute labour and the introduction of the tractor into British farming for the first time. Challenging accepted view on the period, the author shows that shortages of labour and other factors of production had only a slight effect on farm output and the national food supply.
Автор: Purkiss Название: Literature, Gender and Politics During the English Civil War ISBN: 0521152763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521152761 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6862 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by analysing representations of masculinity in the writings of Milton, Marvell, Waller and Herrick. This study will appeal to scholars of seventeenth-century literature as well as those working in intellectual history and the history of gender.
Описание: Gavin Foster re-conceptualizes class debates around the Irish Civil War (1922-3), exploring the social dimensions of the bitter conflict from fresh angles that highlight the rival social outlooks, interests, and conflicts that ruptured nationalist solidar
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