Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

The Great War in history :

Winter, J. M.

The Great War in history : debates and controversies, 1914 to the present / Jay Winter and Antoine Prost. - Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2005. - viii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; no. 21 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-240) and index.

Preface; Introduction; 1. Three historiographical configurations; 2. Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims?; 3. Generals and ministers: who commanded and how?; 4. Soldiers: how did they wage war?; 5. Businessmen, industrialists and bankers: how was the economic war waged?; 6. Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution?; 7. Civilians: how did they make war and survive it?; 8. Agents of memory: how did people live between remembrance and forgetting?; 9. The Great War in history; Bibliography; Index.

0521850835 0521616336 (pbk.)

2005047159


World War, 1914-1918--Historiography.

D522.42. / W56 2005

940.3/09