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The First World War: A Concise Global History by William Kelleher Storey (Paperback, 2014)

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In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. With reorganized chapters designed to enhance classroom use, this edition brings the text up to date with current scholarship and new maps for the Great War's centennial. The author argues that the Great War profoundly changed the ways in which people imagined the landscape around them and thought about technology and the environment. Before the war, Europe and its colonies generally regarded industrial technology as an instrument of modernity; the landscape existed to be conquered, divided, and ruled. During and after the war, the costs of conquest became much higher, raising significant doubts about the value of progress. Soldiers experienced profound personal degradation, physical injuries, and mental collapse in the midst of nightmarish, technologically induced environmental conditions, which they vividly remembered when they formed new identities in the postwar world. Although people did not abandon thoughts of technological advance, after the war they had a keener sense of modernity's costs. Without neglecting traditional themes, Storey's deft interweaving of the role of environment and technology enriches our understanding of the social, political, and military history of the war, not only in Europe, but worldwide.

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Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13
9781442226814
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200632133

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William Kelleher Storey
Publication Name
The First World War: a Concise Global History
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
218 Pages

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229mm
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154mm
Item Weight
345g

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William Kelleher Storey
Series Title
Exploring World History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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