{"product_id":"anticipating-total-war-the-german-and-american-experiences-1871-1914-paperback-9780521026321","title":"Anticipating Total War; The German and American Experiences, 1871–1914 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521026321","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAnticipating Total War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe German and American Experiences, 1871–1914\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eManfred F. Boemeke (Edited by), Roger Chickering (Edited by), Stig Förster (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521026321, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 April 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e508 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.4 x 2.7 cm, 0.758 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...these essays make important and original contributions to a historiography on the Great War that continues to evolve in exciting and promising new directions.\"| Technology and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThese essays explore the discourse on war in Germany and the United States between 1871 and 1914 - in the era bounded by the mid-century wars in Europe and North America and the First World War. The concept of  'total war', which was prefigured in aspects of the earlier conflicts and realized in 1914, provides the analytical focus. The essays reveal vigorous discussions of warfare in several forums - among soldiers, statesmen, women's groups and educators - on both sides of the Atlantic. Predictions of long, cataclysmic wars were not uncommon in these discussions, while the involvement of German and American soldiers in colonial warfare suggested that future combat would not spare civilians. Despite these 'anticipations of total war', virtually no one drew the practical implications in planning for war in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Roger Chickering and Stig Förster\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Germany, The United States and Total War: 1. Total war: the use and abuse of a concept Roger Chickering\u003cbr\u003e 2. Different path to war: a comparative study of militarism and imperialism in the United States and Imperial Germany, 1871–1914 Irmgard Steinisch\u003cbr\u003e Part II. War and Society: 3. The political economy of warfare in America, 1865–1914 Paul A. C. Kiostinen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hugo Stinnes and the prospect of war before 1914 Gerald D. Feldman\u003cbr\u003e 5. War preparations and ethnic and racial relations in the United States Bruce White\u003cbr\u003e 6. Religion and war in Imperial Germany Gangolf Hübinger\u003cbr\u003e 7. Socializing American youth to be citizen-soldiers David I. MacLeod\u003cbr\u003e 8. Preparing German youth for war Derek S. Linton\u003cbr\u003e 9. Heroes and would-be heroes: veterans' and reservists' associations in Imperial Germany Thomas Rohkrämer\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mobilizing philanthropy in the service of war: the female rituals of care in the New Germany, 1871–1914 Jean H. Quataert\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Memory and Anticipation: War and Culture: 11. The American debate over modern war, 1871–1914 John Whiteclay Chambers II\u003cbr\u003e 12. Whose war? Whose nation? Tensions in the memory of the Franco-German War of 1870–1 Alfred Kelly\u003cbr\u003e 13. War preparations and national identity in Imperial Germany Volker R. Berghahn\u003cbr\u003e 14. Military imagination in the United States, 1815–1917 David F. Trask\u003cbr\u003e 15. Dreams and nightmares: German military leadership and the images of future warfare, 1871–1914 Stig Förster\u003cbr\u003e 16. 'A calamity to civilization': Theodore Roosevelt and the danger of war in Europe Raimund Lammersdorf\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Experience of War: 17. Total war on the American Indian Frontier Robert M. Utley\u003cbr\u003e 18. 'The fellows can just starve': on wars of 'pacification' in the African colonies of Imperial Germany and the concept of 'total war' Trutz von Trotha\u003cbr\u003e 19. Was the Philippine-American war a 'total war'? Glenn Anthony May\u003cbr\u003e 20. An army on vacation? The German war in China, 1900–1 Sabine Dabringhaus\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913285296408,"sku":"9780521026321","price":29.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521026321i_0f04421a-a879-4752-8ce5-7a9ee700798b.jpg?v=1694964689","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/anticipating-total-war-the-german-and-american-experiences-1871-1914-paperback-9780521026321","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}