Revival After the Great War

Revival After the Great War

Author: Luc Verpoest

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9462702500

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The challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.


Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

Author: Jay Winter

Publisher:

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9781139958295

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This 'collective remembrance' of the Great War reassesses one of the critical episodes in twentieth-century cultural history.


Christ in the Camp

Christ in the Camp

Author: John William Jones

Publisher:

Published: 1887

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13:

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This book examines Christianity's role in Lee's army during the Civil War. It also examines the war as a holy war for the Confederacy.


States of Emergency

States of Emergency

Author: Sophie Hochhäusl

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2022-04-28

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 9462703086

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What World War I meant for architecture and urbanism writ large More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from battle. The collection places an emphasis on the various states of emergency as experienced by combatants and civilians across five continents—from refugee camps to military installations, villages to capital cities—thus uncovering the role architecture played in mitigating and exacerbating the everyday tragedy of war.


The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism

The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism

Author: Robert William Fogel

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-05-17

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780226256627

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Robert William Fogel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1993. "To take a trip around the mind of Robert Fogel, one of the grand old men of American economic history, is a rare treat. At every turning, you come upon some shiny pearl of information."—The Economist In this broad-thinking and profound piece of history, Robert William Fogel synthesizes an amazing range of data into a bold and intriguing view of America's past and future—one in which the periodic Great Awakenings of religion bring about waves of social reform, the material lives of even the poorest Americans improve steadily, and the nation now stands poised for a renewed burst of egalitarian progress.


Gustavus Adolphus

Gustavus Adolphus

Author: Theodore Ayrault Dodge

Publisher: Hansebooks

Published: 2023-06-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783348100564

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Gustavus Adolphus - A history of the art of war from its revival after the middle ages to the end of the Spanish succession war. Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.


Revival

Revival

Author: Richard Wolffe

Publisher: Broadway Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0307717429

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Draws on extensive interviews with President Obama and his inner circle inside the West Wing to offer a revealing portrait of the Obama White House at work in a critical period for the country and for the president. Reprint.


The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914

The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914

Author: I. F. Clarke

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1995-11-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780815603580

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This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s—to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction—the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many able writers delighted readers from Sydney to Seattle with their most original revelations of things-to-come. In all their anticipations, the dominant factor was the recognition that the new industrial societies would continue to evolve in obedience to the rate of change. One major event that caused all to think furiously about the future was the Franco-German War of 1870. The new weapons and the new methods of army organization had shown that the conduct of warfare was changing; and, in response to that perception of change, a new form of fiction took on the task of describing the conduct of the war-to-come.


The Revival of Death

The Revival of Death

Author: Tony Walter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-31

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1134814631

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The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book to comprehensively examine this revival and relate it to theories of modernity and postmodernity.