Dynamic of Destruction : Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World WarOUP Oxford, 2007 M07 12 - 448 páginas On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now 'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept Europe in the era of the First World War. Using a wide range of examples and eye-witness accounts from across Europe at this time, award-winning historian Alan Kramer paints a picture of an entire continent plunging into a chilling new world of mass mobilization, total warfare, and the celebration of nationalist or ethnic violence - often directed expressly at the enemy's civilian population. |
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Introduction | 1 |
1 The Burning of Louvain | 6 |
2 The Radicalization of Warfare | 31 |
3 The Warriors | 69 |
4 German Singularity? | 114 |
5 Culture and War | 159 |
6 Trench Warfare and its Consequences | 211 |
7 War Bodies and Minds | 230 |
Conclusion | 328 |
Historiographical Note | 339 |
Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land 1907 | 347 |
Notes | 349 |
394 | |
Sources and Acknowledgements for Illustrations | 416 |
419 | |
8 Victory Trauma and PostWar Disorder | 268 |
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Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War Alan Kramer Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War Alan Kramer Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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