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European Culture in the Great War

The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 19141918 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

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Published by Cambridge University Press .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • European history: First World War,
  • History - General History,
  • History,
  • Sociology,
  • Europe,
  • Europe - General,
  • Military - World War I,
  • History / Europe / General,
  • World War, 1914-1918 - Influence

  • Edition Notes

    ContributionsAviel Roshwald (Editor), Richard Stites (Editor)
    The Physical Object
    FormatPaperback
    Number of Pages442
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL7713273M
    ISBN 100521013240
    ISBN 109780521013246

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    There is a great book, called In Search of the World Before the Great War, that highlights the pleasant culture of pre-World War I Europe. Of course, we know it all came crashing down. 3 Culture in Poland during World War I 58 HAROLD B. SEGEL 4 Jewish cultural identity in Eastern and Central Europe during the Great War 89 AVIEL ROSHWALD 5 The tragic carnival: Austrian culture in the First World War STEVEN BELLER 6 Ambivalent patriots: Czech culture in the Great War CLAIRE NOLTE 7 Culture in Hungary during World War I.

      The American Century, proclaimed so triumphantly at the start of World War II, will be tattered and fading by , its eighth decade, and could be history by Advertisement.   I'm a European (an Englishman) who spent a number of years working for a US publisher. Whenever we were publishing a book about the Second World War my US colleagues were adamant that the book cover should feature a prominent Swastika. In the USA.


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Yet the English-language literature remains Reviews: 1. It is commonplace to refer to the First World War as an historical watershed, but the nature of that great cataclysm's impact upon European society and culture remains a hotly debated topic.

This book offers a comparative study, whose broad comparative sweep is enhanced by its interactive treatment of high culture, popular culture, and by:   The First World War is commonly referred to as an historical watershed, and the nature of that great cataclysm's impact upon European society and culture remains a hotly debated topic.

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Lawrence’s story The Prussian Officer. It was also the year of Pablo Picasso’s painting “The Small Table. History of Europe - History of Europe - The interwar years: Woodrow Wilson’s vision of a general association of nations took shape in the League of Nations, founded in Its basic constitution was the Covenant—Wilson’s word, chosen, as he said, “because I am an old Presbyterian.” The Covenant was embodied in the Versailles and other peace treaties.

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In Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, Jay Winter juxtaposes poetry, film, literature, paintings and war memorials produced in Germany, France and Great Britain during the interwar period, and finds "striking convergences in the experience of loss and search for meaning in all combatant countries" (11).Reviews: Get this from a library.

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There is no restriction as to period. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. The Great War and Modern Memory is a book of literary criticism written by Paul Fussell and published in by Oxford University describes the literary responses by English participants in World War I to their experiences of combat, particularly in trench perceived futility and insanity of this conduct became, for many gifted Englishmen of their generation, a metaphor.

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The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledge of the conflict and, most importantly, of those who participated and were affected by it, altered from country to country, and in some cases has.

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