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Anticipating total war : the German and American experiences, 1871-1914
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- Conferences on The "United States and Germany in the Age of Total War, 1860 - 1945" (2 : 1994.07. : Augsburg)
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"The essays in Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914 - in the era bounded by the...
"The essays in Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914 - in the era bounded by the midcentury wars in Europe and North America and World War I. The concept of "total war," which was prefigured in aspects of the earlier conflicts and realized in 1914, provides the analytical focus. The essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare in several forums - among soldiers, statesmen, women's groups, and educators - on both sides of the Atlantic. Predictions of long, cataclysmic wars were not uncommon in these discussions, while the involvement of German and American soldiers in colonial warfare suggested that future combat would not spare civilians. Despite these "anticipations of total war," virtually no one foresaw the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century."--Jacket.
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- edited by Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering, and Stig Förster
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- English
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- First paperback edition
- Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
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- ix, 496 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0521026326, 9780521026321
- OCLC
- ocn255314773
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Total war : the use and abuse of a concept / Roger Chickering -- Different path to war : a comparative study of militarism and imperialism in the United States and Imperial Germany, 1871-1914 / Irmgard Steinisch -- Political economy of warfare in America, 1865-1914 / Paul A.C. Koistinen -- Hugo Stinnes and the prospect of war before 1914 / Gerald D. Feldman -- War preparations and ethnic and racial relations in the United States / Bruce White -- Religion and war in Imperial Germany / Gangolf Hübinger -- Socializing American youth to be citizen-soldiers / David I. MacLeod -- Preparing German youth for war / Derek S. Linton -- Heroes and would-be heroes : veterans' and reservists' associations in Imperial Germany / Thomas Rohkrämer -- Mobilizing philanthropy in the service of war : the female rituals of care in the New Germany, 1871-1914 / Jean H. Quataert -- American debate over modern war, 1871-1914 / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- Whose war? whose nation? tensions in the memory of the Franco-German war of 1870-1871 / Alfred Kelly -- War preparations and national identity in Imperial Germany / Volker E. Berghahn -- Military imagination in the United States, 1815-1917 / David F. Trask -- Dreams and nightmares : German military leadership and the images of future warfare, 1871-1914 / Stig Förster -- "Calamity to civilization" : Theodore Roosevelt and the danger of war in Europe / Raimund Lammersdorf -- Total war on the American Indian frontier / Robert M. Utley -- "Fellows can just starve" : on wars of "pacification" in the African colonies of Imperial Germany and the concept of "total war" / Trutz von Trotha -- Was the Philippine-American war a "total war"? / Glenn Anthony May -- Army on vacation? the German war in China, 1900-1901 / Sabine Dabringhaus