Dynamic of Destruction
Culture And Mass Killing In The First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20007447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Kramer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 434 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Dynamic of destruction (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780192803429.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388338364 |
| Open Library | OL17581059M |
| ISBN | 9780192803429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - ‘Holocaust at Louvain’ proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now ‘legitimate’ targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept Europe in the era of the First World War. Using a wide range of examples and eye-witness accounts from across Europe at this time, award-winning historian Alan Kramer paints a picture of an entire continent plunging into a chilling new world of mass mobilization, total warfare, and the celebration of nationalist or ethnic violence - often directed expressly at the enemy’s civilian population
Adversary · Ancient history · German · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Style (visual arts) · The Holocaust · Witness · World War II · Demography · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact · 1914-1918 · Atrocities · Cultural property · Destruction and pillage · War crimes · World War · World war, atrocities
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| Unique citing works | 53 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,94 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |