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The Ordeal of Peace - Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921 (Paperback)
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The Ordeal of Peace - Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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Historians know a great deal about how wars begin, but far less
about how they end. Whilst much has been written about the forces,
passions, and institutions that mobilized societies for war and
worked to sustain that mobilization through years of struggle, much
less is known about the equally complex processes that demobilized
societies in the wake of armed conflict. As such, this new book
will be welcomed by scholars wishing to understand the effects of
the Great War in its fullest context, including the reactions,
behaviors, and attitudes of 'ordinary' Europeans during the
tumultuous events of the years of demobilization. Taking a
transnational perspective on demobilization this study demonstrates
that the experience of mass industrial war generated remarkably
similar pressures within both the defeated and victorious
countries. Using as examples the important provincial centres of
Munich and Manchester, this book examines the experiences of
European urban-dwellers from the last year of the war until the
early 1920s. Utilizing a wide variety of sources from more than
twenty archives in Germany, Britain, and the United States, this
book recovers voices from the period that are often lost in
conventional narratives, capturing the richness and diversity of
the ideas, visions, and conflicts engendered by those difficult and
tumultuous years. The result is a book that paints a vivid picture
of the difficulties that peace could bring to economies and
societies that had rapidly and fully adapted to the demands of
industrial world war.
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