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  3. State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 December 2009
      03 July 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511562891
      9780521561129
      9780521522663
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511562891
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Military History, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare (3)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Military History, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare (3)
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    This volume examines political and cultural mobilisation in the face of industrialised mass death during the First World War. Comparing Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, it generates arguments on mobilisation and 'total war' which have wider relevance. It explores 'national ideals' which cast the war as a crusade, the inclusive 'self-mobilisation' of sectional identities and private organisations behind national efforts, and the exclusion of suspect groups (the 'enemy within') from the mobilisation process. It also highlights the importance, and difficulty, of assessing the limits of mobilisation as well as the differing capacities of the state to sustain it, factors related to prior degrees of national integration and political legitimacy. Mobilisation in this sense was an important factor which determined the outcome and legacy of the war.

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    '… this is a very good collection of essays which makes a substantial contribution to understanding the First World War.’

    Source: Labour History Review

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