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The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 2, The State by Jay Winter (Yale University, Connecticut)

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to, and were deformed by, the near-unbearable pressures of war. Every state involved faced issues of military-civilian relations, parliamentary reviews of military policy, and the growth of war economies; and yet their particular form and significance varied in every national case. Written by a global team of historical experts, this volume sets new standards in the political history of the waging of war in an authoritative new narrative which addresses problems of logistics, morale, innovation in tactics and weapons systems, the use and abuse of science; all of which were ubiquitous during the conflict.

The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 2, The State Reviews

' both scholarly and deftly drafted, a joy to read. It provides broad as well as deep analysis of just about every conceivable facet of this global catastrophe. It deserves close reading and contemplation.' Len Shurtleff, World War One Historical Association
'The global perspective on the war, represented in these volumes, adds further layers of complexity to our understanding of this foundational moment in modern history. The conjunction of early twentieth-century patterns of globalization and industrialized great power war was singular, distinguishing it from earlier European conflicts fought across the globe and the Second World War, which followed the collapse of globalization in the 1930s.' William Mulligan, European History Quarterly

About Jay Winter (Yale University, Connecticut)

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, Connecticut. He came to Yale from the University of Cambridge, where he took his doctorate and where he taught history from 1979 to 2001 and was a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995); Remembering War (2006) and Dreams of Peace and Freedom (2006). In 1997, he received an Emmy award for the best documentary series of the year as co-producer and co-writer of 'The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century', an eight-hour series broadcast on PBS and the BBC, and shown subsequently in 28 countries. He is one of the founders of the Historial de la grande guerre, the international museum of the Great War, in Peronne, Somme, France. His biography of Rene Cassin, written with Antoine Prost and published in French in 2011, was published in an English edition by Cambridge University Press in 2013.

Introduction to Volume 2 Jay Winter; Part I. Political Power: Introduction to Part I Jean-Jacques Becker and Gerd Krumeich; 1. Heads of state and government Jean-Jacques Becker; 2. Parliaments Dittmar Dahlmann; 3. Diplomats David Stevenson; 4. Civil-military relations Stig Forster; 5. Revolution Richard Bessel; Part II. Armed Forces: Introduction to Part II Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Heather Jones; 6. Combat and tactics Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau; 7. Morale Alexander Watson; 8. Mutiny Len Smith; 9. Logistics Ian Brown; 10. Technology and armaments Frederic Guelton; 11. Prisoners of war Heather Jones; Part III. The Sinews of War: Introduction to Part III Jay Winter and John Horne; 12. War economies Barry Supple; 13. Workers Antoine Prost; 14. Cities Stefan Goebel; 15. Agrarian society Benjamin Ziemann; 16. Finance Hans-Peter Ullmann; 17. Scientists Roy Macleod; 18. Blockade and economic warfare Alan Kramer; Part IV. The Search for Peace: Introduction to Part IV Gerd Krumeich; 19. Diplomacy Georges-Henri Soutou; 20. Neutrality Samuel Kruizinga; 21. Pacifism Martin Ceadel; 22. Drafting the peace Helmut Konrad; 23. The wars after the war Robert Gerwarth; 24. Visual essay: the State Arndt Weinrich.

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The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 2, The State by Jay Winter (Yale University, Connecticut)

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Jay Winter (Yale University, Connecticut)

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The Cambridge History of the First World War

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2016-02-04

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The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 2, The State Jay Winter (Yale University, Connecticut)

The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 2, The State by Jay Winter (Yale University, Connecticut)

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