ISBN:
9783892448259
,
3892448256
Language:
English
Pages:
282 S.
,
21 cm
Series Statement:
Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft 24
DDC:
900
Keywords:
War Congresses History 20th century
;
Violence Congresses
;
Atrocities Congresses History 20th century
;
Krieg
;
Kriegsforschung
;
Gewalt
;
Staatliche Gewalt
;
Genozid
;
Völkermord
;
Kriegsverbrechen
;
Geschichte, 20. Jh.
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Krieg
;
Geschichte 1914-1997
;
Kriegführung
;
Gewalt
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
The war of atrocities : murderous scares and extreme combat / Alan Kramer -- Endkampf 1918 and 1945 : German nationalism, annihilation, and self-destruction / Michael Geyer -- The war to end all wars : the shock of violence in 1945 and its aftermath in Germany / Richard Bessel -- The killing frenzy : wartime narratives of enemy action / Joanna Bourke -- War as work : aspects of soldiering in twentieth-century wars / Alf L(c)ơdtke -- Woman's place in the no man's land of violence : the Indian subcontinent, 1947-48 / Gyanendra Pandey -- Armed struggle and sectarian violence : South Africa and Northern Ireland compared / Janet Cherry -- Performing violence : soldiers, paramilitaries, and civilians in the twentieth-century Balkan wars / Wolfgang H(c)œpken -- Religious languages of violence : some reflections on the reading of extremes / Bernd Weisbrod
Note:
On June 13 and 14, 2003, the twentieth "Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft", sponsored by the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, addressed the theme of "The No Man's Land of Violence: Extreme Wars in the 20th Century". This volume presents the contributions and the introduction in slightly revised versions
,
The war of atrocities : murderous scares and extreme combat
,
Endkampf 1918 and 1945 : German nationalism, annihilation, and self-destruction
,
The war to end all wars : the shock of violence in 1945 and its aftermath in Germany
,
The killing frenzy : wartime narratives of enemy action
,
War as work : aspects of soldiering in twentieth-century wars
,
Woman's place in the no man's land of violence : the Indian subcontinent, 1947-48
,
Armed struggle and sectarian violence : South Africa and Northern Ireland compared
,
Performing violence : soldiers, paramilitaries, and civilians in the twentieth-century Balkan wars
,
Religious languages of violence : some reflections on the reading of extremes
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