The Limits of Demobilization
Global Perspectives on the Aftermath of the Great War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10073793 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Edele (0000-0002-1783-7662, The University of Western Australia, corresponding author), R Gerwarth (0000-0003-0424-8081, University College Dublin) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-14 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022009414557907 |
| OpenAlex | W2324844859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
One hundred years ago, the European powers plunged into a soon-to-be global conflict that has been aptly described as ‘the great seminal catastrophe’ of the twentieth-century. Given the scope of the horrors which Europe and the wider world experienced between August 1914 and November 1918, this verdict seems more than justified: estimates of the casualties among the roughly 65 million mobilized soldiers range between eight and 10 million dead combatants and between five and six million killed civilians – excluding the hundreds of thousands of men who were permanently disfigured or mentally traumatized. The body of scholarship devoted to this first ‘total war’ in history is appropriately large, but its coverage uneven: while the political events and diplomatic entanglements that led to the outbreak of war in 1914, the developments on the Western Front or the Paris Peace Treaties have received sustained attention ever since the end of that war, Eastern European and global historians have only more recently begun to explore the full economic, political and cultural consequences of the First World War. Even less attention – with the exception of Germany and
Demobilization · Development economics · Economic history · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
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Brutal by Temperament and Taste”
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |