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Auteur(s) : Proctor, Tammy M. (1968-....)
Titre(s) : Civilians in a world at war, 1914-1918 [Texte imprimé] / Tammy M. Proctor
Publication : New York : New York University Press, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : xiv-363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Citizens in uniform ; Civilians and the labor of war ; Constructing home fronts
; Caught between the lines ; Caring for the wounded ; Creating war experts ; Civilians
behind the wire ; Civil War and revolution ; Conclusion: Consequences of World War
I.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
World War I heralded a new global era of warfare, consolidating and expanding changes
that had been building throughout the previous century, while also instituting new
notions of war. The 1914-18 conflict witnessed the first aerial bombing of civilian
populations, the first widespread concentration camps for the internment of enemy
alien civilians, and an unprecedented use of civilian labor and resources for the
war effort. Humanitarian relief programs for civilians became a common feature of
modern society, while food became as significant as weaponry in the fight to win.
The author argues it was World War I, the first modern, global war, that witnessed
the invention of both the modern "civilian" and the "home front," where a totalizing
war strategy pitted industrial nations and their citizenries against each other. This
work explores the different ways civilians work and function in a war situation, and
broadens our understanding of the civilian to encompass munitions workers, nurses,
laundresses, refugees, aid workers, and children who lived and worked in occupied
zones, on home and battle fronts, and in the spaces in between. Global in scope, spanning
the Eastern, Western, Italian, East African, and Mediterranean fronts, the author
examines in detail the role of experts in the war, the use of forced labor, and the
experiences of children in the combatant countries. As in many wars, civilians on
both sides of WWI were affected, and vast displacements of the populations shaped
the contemporary world in countless ways, redrawing boundaries and creating or reviving
lines of ethnic conflict. Exploring primary source materials and secondary studies
of combatant and neutral nations, while synthesizing French, German, Dutch, and English
language sources, the author transcends the artificial boundaries of national histories
and the exclusive focus on soldiers. Instead she tells the story of the civilian in
the Great War, allowing voices from the period to speak for themselves
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) et société
Civils et guerre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814767153 (cl) (alk. paper). - ISBN 081476715X (cl) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780814767801 (erroné) (ebk.). - ISBN 081476780X (erroné) (ebk.)
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FRBNF42428116
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