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  • German Soldiers in the Great War

    Letters and Eyewitness Accounts

    Edited by Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ...
    The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Olympians

    Rugby School's Cultural Leaders

    by John Witheridge, John Clarke, Anthony Kenny, David Urquhart, Robin le Poidevin, A N Wilson, Andrew Vincent, A C Grayling, Jay Winter, Ian Hesketh, David Boucher, Rowan Williams, Patrick Derham, John Taylor ...
    This book is designed to explore key questions surrounding faith, philosophy, science, culture and social progress by celebrating the life and thought of cultural leaders from Rugby School (estd. 1567).Some of the most distinguished historians, philosophers, social commentators and religious commentators are alumni of Rugby School. In this collection of essays, contributors explore the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toxic Demography

    Ideology and the Politics of Population

    by Jennifer D. Sciubba, Michael S. Teitelbaum, Jay Winter ...
    Population politics has taken many forms throughout history. Political leaders from both democracies and non-democracies commonly place population issues at the center of their political programs, manufacturing alarm over changing demographic distributions. From fears of existential decline to debates over migration and fertility, demographic issues are often distorted by political ideologies that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Legacy of the Great War

    Ninety Years On

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    In late 2007 and early 2008, world-renowned historians gathered in Kansas City for a series of public forums on World War I. Each of the five events focused on a particular topic and featured spirited dialogue between its prominent participants.In spontaneous exchanges, the eminent scholars probed each other’s arguments, learned from each other, and provided insights not just into history but also ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • War beyond Words

    Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present

    by Jay Winter ...
    What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings of war, from 1914 to the present. He reveals the ways in which different creative arts have framed ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Day the Great War Ended, 24 July 1923

    The Civilianization of War

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Greater War
    On 24 July 1923 the last Treaty ending hostilities in the Great War was signed at Lausanne in Switzerland. That Treaty closed a decade of violence. Jay Winter tells the story of what happened on that day. On the shores of Lake Geneva, diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers came from Ankara and Athens, from London, Paris, and Rome, and from other capital cities to affirm that war was over. The Treaty ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, Global War

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the First World War
    This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond that which anyone had anticipated in 1914. Adopting a global ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • German Students' War Letters

    by Philipp Witkop, Jay Winter ...
    Translated by A. F. Wedd ...
    Series series Pine Street Books
    Originally appearing at the same time as the pacifist novel All Quiet on the Western Front, this powerful collection provides a glimpse into the hearts and minds of an enemy that had been thoroughly demonized by the Allied press. Composed by German students who had left their university studies in order to participate in World War I, these letters reveal the struggles and hardships that all ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Republican Identities in War and Peace

    Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    by Antoine Prost ...
    Translated by Jay Winter, Helen McPhail ...
    Series series The Legacy of the Great War
    Antoine Prost's contributions to French history have enabled us to understand the failure of fascism in France and why the Republic survived the humiliation of occupation and collaboration in the Second World War. He is the pre-eminent historian of civil society in France. For the first time his seminal articles have been translated into English and collected in this single volume. Beginning with ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Performing the Past

    Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe

    by Jay Winter, Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree ...
    Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Statelessness after Arendt

    European refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War

    Edited by Kolleen Guy, Jay Winter ...
    Series series Cultural History of Modern War
    This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt’s classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism.To her, statelessness was the product of a failed European nation-state system. We find a very ... Read more

    $102.99 USD