1914-1918: An Anatomy of Global Confl1ict

by Andrzej Chwalba

Overview

1914–1918: An Anatomy of Global Conflict recounts a history of the First World War from an anthropological perspective. It shares the stories of individual participants, which include soldiers, civilians, and women. The study revisits the events of the war through the lens of everyday life, economic affairs, migration, invasion, military occupation, the role of civilian infrastructure, and the impact of the national question; and it undertakes a clinical analysis of various models of ground warfare.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788323336389
Publisher:	Jagiellonian University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2014
Series:	Jagiellonian Studies of History , #4
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Andrzej Chwalba is a professor of history at the Jagiellonian University, Poland and the author of over 20 books and academic textbooks on a broad scope of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in its local, national, and global dimensions.

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Table of Contents

Author's Preface 7

I The War Starts 9

1 Sarajevo 9

2 The last hours of peace 19

3 Could war have been avoided? 25

II Land Warfare 37

1 Manoeuvre warfare 37

2 Trench warfare 38

3 Alpine warfare 56

4 The winter wars 62

5 Landing operations 65

6 The war of the secret services 67

7 Psychological warfare 78

8 Arms and equipment 89

III A Soldier's Lot 105

1 The wounded 105

2 Diseases and epidemics 113

3 The killed 119

4 Prisoners-of-war 125

5 Deserters and mutinies 128

IV The Civilians' War 133

1 The war economy 133

2 Military occupation and resistance 145

3 Everyday life 150

4 In sickness and in health. Charity 158

5 Material damage. Migrations 164

6 The plight of women 167

7 Revolutions 171

V The War of the Nations 181

1 The Czechs and the Yugoslavs 182

2 From Poland to Finland 190

3 Jews, Armenians, and Arabs 201

4 The Irish case 208

Time to Conclude 211

Selected Bibliography 213

Index of Persons 217

Geographical index 221

Editorial Reviews

Chwalba's concise account adopts an anthropological approach set within the framework of an innovative layout designed by the author and announced in the title of his book… This is a highly recommendable book, and its quality is determined above all by its structuralist approach to the discourse.

Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan - Professor Tomasz Schramm

"Chwalba's concise account adopts an anthropological approach set within the framework of an innovative layout designed by the author and announced in the title of his book…. This is a highly recommendable book, and its quality is determined above all by its structuralist approach to the discourse." —Professor Tomasz Schramm, Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

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