State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War

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 a...