The First World War and the transformations of the State
International Affairs Special Issue: The Great War Volume 90, Issue 2, pages 249–264, March 2014 DOI: 10.1111/1468-2346.12107 Abstract: Scholars of the First World War have long recognized the critical role played by the state in leading, organizing and managing the mobilization of belligerent societies, and the state’s transformations have testified to the impact of industrialized warfare. Since the late […]
En librairie – Mobilisation, sacrifice, citoyenneté. 1900-1918
Violence and solidarity. Urban experiences of the First World War
Keynote Lecture given at the conference Cities and Wars, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon, 27 September 2012 The outbreak of the war in August 1914 heralded a critical redefinition of the role of civilians in war, as the conflict challenged conventional understanding of the relationship between the business of war and the organization of modern […]
