Anticipating Total War
The German and American Experiences, 1871–1914
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- Editors:
- Manfred F. Boemeke, United Nations University Press, Tokyo
- Roger Chickering, Georgetown University, Washington DC
- Stig Förster, Universität Bern, Switzerland
- Date Published: April 2006
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- isbn: 9780521026321
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These 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.
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- Date Published: April 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521026321
- length: 508 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 154 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.758kg
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Table of Contents
Introduction Roger Chickering and Stig Förster
Part I. Germany, The United States and Total War:
1. Total war: the use and abuse of a concept Roger Chickering
2. Different path to war: a comparative study of militarism and imperialism in the United States and Imperial Germany, 1871–1914 Irmgard Steinisch
Part II. War and Society:
3. The political economy of warfare in America, 1865–1914 Paul A. C. Kiostinen
4. Hugo Stinnes and the prospect of war before 1914 Gerald D. Feldman
5. War preparations and ethnic and racial relations in the United States Bruce White
6. Religion and war in Imperial Germany Gangolf Hübinger
7. Socializing American youth to be citizen-soldiers David I. MacLeod
8. Preparing German youth for war Derek S. Linton
9. Heroes and would-be heroes: veterans' and reservists' associations in Imperial Germany Thomas Rohkrämer
10. Mobilizing philanthropy in the service of war: the female rituals of care in the New Germany, 1871–1914 Jean H. Quataert
Part III. Memory and Anticipation: War and Culture:
11. The American debate over modern war, 1871–1914 John Whiteclay Chambers II
12. Whose war? Whose nation? Tensions in the memory of the Franco-German War of 1870–1 Alfred Kelly
13. War preparations and national identity in Imperial Germany Volker R. Berghahn
14. Military imagination in the United States, 1815–1917 David F. Trask
15. Dreams and nightmares: German military leadership and the images of future warfare, 1871–1914 Stig Förster
16. 'A calamity to civilization': Theodore Roosevelt and the danger of war in Europe Raimund Lammersdorf
Part IV. The Experience of War:
17. Total war on the American Indian Frontier Robert M. Utley
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
19. Was the Philippine-American war a 'total war'? Glenn Anthony May
20. An army on vacation? The German war in China, 1900–1 Sabine Dabringhaus
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