Author : Stig Förster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521521192
On the Road to Total War attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialised warfare, a concept which terrorises citizens and soldiers alike. Mass mobilisation of people and resources and the growth of nationalism led to this totalisation of war in nineteenth-century industrialised nations. In this collection of essays, international scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification.