破壊の力学：第一次大戦における文化と大量殺戮 Dynamic of Destruction : Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (The Making of the Modern World)

Kramer, Alan

Oxford Univ Pr（2007/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 434 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192803429
• DDC分類 940.405

基本説明

Award-winning historian Alan Kramer traces the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict before the first world war - a more total war directed at civilian populations and their entire culture.

Full Description

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.

Contents

1. The Burning of Louvain; 2. The Radicalization of Warfare; 3. The Warriors; 4. German Singularity?; 5. Culture and War; 6. Trench Warfare and its Consequences; 7. War, bodies, and minds; 8. Victory or trauma?; Conclusion; Historiographical Note; Bibliography