Great War, Total War

Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918

By: Roger Chickering (Editor), Stig Förster (Editor), Christof Mauch (Contribution by), David Lazar (Contribution by)

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The First World War was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict in the world's history, and it gave birth to the concept of total war. The essays in this 2000 volume analyse the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the systematic erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres. With an emphasis on developments in Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States, leading scholars from Europe and North America locate the First World War along a trajectory that began in the wars of the middle of the nineteenth century and culminated in worldwide conflict in the middle of the twentieth. The essays explore the efforts of soldiers and statesmen, industrialists and financiers, professionals and civilian activists to adjust to the titanic, pervasive pressures that the military stalemate on the western front imposed on belligerent and neutral societies.

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'... a fine collection of essays that students of the Great War should not miss.' The Economic History Review '... this collection can justify its claim to address the 'totality' of war on the Western Front, and the reader can expect a broadening ... of his or her knowledge of the conflict from reading this volume.' War in History 'The volume is made attractive by the extremely high quality of the contributions, and by its discussion of important questions concerning the historical location of the First World War.' Sven Oliver Muller, German Historical Institute Bulletin

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Introduction Stig F+ rster
Basic Reflections
From cabinet war to total war: the perspective of military doctrine, 1861-1918
World War I and the theory of total war: reflections on the British and German cases
The Changing Realities of Warfare
World War I and the revolution in logistics
Mass warfare and the impact of technology
Total war through new weapons? The use of chemical agents in World War I
Planning total war? Falkenhayn and the Battle of Verdun 1916
The most extensive experiment that imagination can produce: violence of war, emotional stress, and German medicine
War Against Noncombatants
War between soldiers and enemy civilians, 1914-1915
The blockade of Germany and the strategy of starvation
Total rhetoric, limited war: Germany-s U-boat campaign, 1917-1918
The first air war against noncombatants: strategic bombing of German cities in World War I
Bullying the neutrals: the case of the Netherlands
Politicians, Soldiers and the Problem of Unlimited Warfare
Poincar+¼, Clemenceau, and the quest for total victory
Strategy and unlimited warfare in Germany
The strategy of unlimited warfare
French strategy on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Strategy and total war in the United States
Mobilizing Economies and Finance for War
War aims, state intervention, and business leadership in Germany: the case of Hugo Stinnes
Lloyd George and the management of the British war economy
Better late than never: the American economic war effort, 1917-1918
How (not) to pay for the war: traditional finance and total war
Societies Mobilized for War
Mobilizing German society for war
Women-s wartime services under the cross: patriotic communities in Germany, 1912-1918
Pandora-s Box: propaganda and war hysteria in the United States during World War I
Painting and music during and after the Great War: the art of total war
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