Remobilizing for ‘total war’
France and Britain, 1917–1918
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23249014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Home (Trinity College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Pages | 195-211 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | State, Society and Mobilization in Europe During the First World War (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511562891.013 |
| OpenAlex | W2491913686 |
| Open Library | OL1005158M |
| ISBN | 9780511562891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
When war broke out in 1914, civil liberties were curtailed and the arbitrary powers of the state were dramatically increased in France and Britain, as in other belligerents. The imposition of military discipline on millions of men completed a huge expansion of the state's repressive capability. Yet the legitimacy of both state and nation in the pre-war period had come increasingly to depend on mass participation, however incomplete, and this was especially true of Britain and France as something approaching democracies. Since the war was immediately held to be a matter of survival for each nation and state, mobilizing the energies of society behind it naturally drew on the broader legitimacy of both. It was a process which could not rely on repression, or even on the state, but entailed the ‘self-mobilization’ of civil society in the form of a host of semi-official and private agencies. Support for the national effort, especially in the liberal democracies, came from persuasion – and self-persuasion – much more than from coercion.
Civil liberties · Coercion (linguistics) · Economic history · Legitimacy · Mobilization · Persuasion · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2015 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |