Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great WarThe unprecedented scope and intensity of the First World War has prompted an enormous body of retrospective scholarship. However, efforts to provide a coherent synthesis about the war's impact and significance have remained circumscribed, tending to focus either on the operational outlines of military strategy and tactics or on the cultural legacy of the conflict as transmitted bythe war's most articulate observers. This volume departs from

Inspired by the social realism of Honoré de Balzac

She explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics

The essays in this volume offer different perspectives on the transformation of an important agrarian society in the Middle East

historical studies

Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective provides the first comprehensive treatment of the work of Wesley J

This book maps the development of a regional elite and its persistence as an economic upper class through the nineteenth century

though in different form

these works demonstrate the importance of the literary in Iraqi society

philosophical inquiry

Migdal addresses larger questions with resonance far beyond Israel: How do particular societies and states end up with their distinctive character

The authors argue that public universities must be democratically organized to perform their educational and societal functions

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