Displaying 1 of 1 2000 Format: Book Title: World War I and the cultures of modernity / edited by Douglas Mackaman and Michael Mays. Publisher, Date: Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, [2000] ©2000 Description: xxv, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm illustration Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence. Civilization, Modern -- 20th century. Other Author: Mackaman, Douglas Peter. Mays, Michael. Other Title: World War one World War 1 Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-192) and index. 006752 LCCN: 99057734 ISBN: 1578062438 (cloth : alk. paper) System Availability: 1 # System items in: 1 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews CHOICE ReviewThis collection of essays examines how WW I "... was lived and understood by the soldiers and civilians whose lives it came to organize and define." The approach is interdisciplinary and, among the historians, dominated by the new social history, which focuses on society from the bottom up and on class and gender issues. Some of the essays are stimulating, especially Regina Sweeney's study of the official efforts to raise the moral level of the French people, Jeffrey Smith's study of the expansion of the "public sphere" in Germany, and Janet Watson's study of British efforts to bring women into the work force to support the war while not disturbing prewar gender relations. These studies illuminate important ways in which the war altered European society, and they enhance our understanding of both modern war and modern culture. Overall, however, the book does not come together. The essays lack any readily apparent connection to each other, and several focus on insignificant subjects or have no apparent connection to the war at all. Finally, too many of the contributions suffer from an academic writing style that makes them a chore to read. For faculty only. R. H. Larson; Lycoming College Summary A revisionist study that rejects the time-honored argument that the Great War was the cataclysmic break with the epoch that preceded it Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
