Wohl: Generation 1914 - Hardcover

Wohl, Professor Of History Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674344650 ISBN 13: 9780674344655

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 307 pages; Description: ix, 307 p. , [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Youth--Europe--History. Conflict of generations--United States. World War, 1914-1918--Influence. Europe--Intellectual life--20th century.

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This is a work of broad and impeccable scholarship...Succinct, lucid, and superbly written, it is the best history to deal with the problem of generation...[Wohl's] talent for incisive portraiture is remarkable.--Robert Rosenstone "New Republic "

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The generation of 1914 holds a special place in memory, affection, and myth. In this irresistible and moving book, Robert Wohl rescues it from the shadows of legend and brings it fully into the realm of understanding. He tells the story of the young men--the middle class elite of five European countries, France, Germany, England, Spain, and Italy, to recreate the generational consciousness that united them as well as the unique national experience that made them different.These were men born at the end of the nineteenth century when the world of reason was disintegrating into a world of irrationality. They were destined to rule but their lives were interrupted by the greatest of wars, leaving them searching for identity and historical continuity. Wohl recaptures this search through novels, poems, autobiographies, memoirs, sociological treatises, philosophical essays, university lectures, political speeches, conversations when recorded, letters, personal notebooks, and newspaper articles. His book is a brilliant study of European mentalities, both collective and individual.Probing behind ideas to find the experience that inspired them, Wohl illuminates in unexpected ways the origins of World War I and its impact on its participants. His exploration of the consciousness of generational unity and the power of the generational bond enables him to place in a novel context the spread of pessimism and despair, the waning of liberal and humanitarian values, the rise of Communist and Fascist movements, and the sudden eruption of violence in Europe's progressive countries between the two world wars.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0674344650
• ISBN 13: 9780674344655
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 307