Kriegsgeologen and practical men’
Military geology and modern memory, 1914–18
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8395332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roy Macleod (0000-0003-2382-4769, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 427-450 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007087400033483 |
| OpenAlex | W2150378772 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 42 |
By 1918, four years of total war had produced a complete mobilization of scientists, scholars and their institutions throughout Europe, the British Empire, and the United States. Public men spoke freely of the implications of a ‘technological war’ run by engineers and chemists. And in the years following the Armistice, historians were eager to record the achievements of the professions, and the effects of the war on their self-image. Memories of the First World War, as Paul Fussell reminds us, remain and shape the texture of our daily life. The parapet, wire and mud have become permanent features of human existence. In a similar way, the war of 1914–18 had enduring consequences for science and scientists, rarely appreciated until the end of the Second World War. Scholars and savants deserted their classrooms for the trenches, industries and war offices, while professional bodies turned themselves into useful extensions of military departments. By October 1914, the infamous Professors' Manifesto, with its Appeal to the Cultured Peoples of the World had identified German science with German war aims, and the natural sciences were fully at war. Scientific knowledge applied to the war was – at one and the same time – a fulfilment of the Enlightenment project of reason, and a violation of the Enlightenment ethos of humanism and internationalism
Appeal · Archaeology · Economic history · Enlightenment · Ethos · German · Humanism · Internationalism (politics · Manifesto · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Theology · World War II · Archaeological Research and Protection · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy
The physicists
The First World War
Scientific Internationalism and the Weimar Physicists
British and American views of the German menace in World War I
Germany after the First World War
The Australian dictionary of biography
The Contradictions of Professionalism
Full of Honour and Gain to Science
Total War and Twentieth-Century Higher Learning
Catastrophe and Culture
Scientific advice in the War at Sea, 1915-1917
Total War and Twentieth-Century Higher Learning
The Great War and Modern Memory
The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
Geological Work on the Western Front
World Minerals and World Peace
Into Hostile Political Camps
Imperial Military Geography
Imperial Military Geography
World Minerals and World Peace
The Treason of the Intellectuals
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |