Capital Cities at War

Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919

By: Jay Winter, Jean-Louis Robert

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Paperback | 6 September 1999

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This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. The authors have compiled a vast array of data and have drawn an original and coherent portrait of European cities at war. Contributors from several fields bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, and represent the best of recent scholarship. One of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, this volume will transform social studies of the conflict and is likely to become a model for research.

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'In this volume, the first of two, eleven historians from Britain, France, Germany and the US have undertaken a major exercise in 'the social and cultural history of modern warfare'. Teamwork permits a range of research in the archives of three nations almost impossible for an individual, and the vast amount of information contained here will be a constant recourse for future enquirers.' London Review of Books '... the most powerful, distinguished and innovative work of recent social history to be published in the last twenty years ... to undertake a comparative, historical analysis of three of the world's most challenging capital cities and to complete it to this standard is unprecedented to the knowledge of this reviewer ... the European historiography of the future is already with us - in the form of multilingual pioneers like Winter and Robert, and their associates.' Anthony Sutcliffe, Reviews in History

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Note on joint authorship	p. ix
List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xiii
Premises	p. 1
Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919: capital cities at war	p. 3
Paris, London, Berlin on the eve of the war	p. 25
The social relations of sacrifice	p. 55
Lost generations: the impact of military casualties on Paris, London, and Berlin	p. 57
The image of the profiteer	p. 104
The social relations of labour	p. 133
The transition to war in 1914	p. 135
The labour market and industrial mobilization, 1915-1917	p. 164
The transition to peace, 1918-1919	p. 196
The social relations of incomes	p. 227
Material pressures on the middle classes	p. 229
Wages and purchasing power	p. 255
Transfer payments and social policy	p. 286
The social relations of consumption	p. 303
Feeding the cities	p. 305
Coal and the metropolis	p. 342
Housing	p. 374
Urban demography in wartime	p. 419
The 'other war' I: protecting public health	p. 421
The 'other war' II: setbacks in public health	p. 456
Surviving the war: life expectation, illness, and mortality rates in Paris, London, and Berlin, 1914-1919	p. 487
Towards a social history of capital cities at war	p. 525
Conclusion: towards a social history of capital cities at war	p. 527
Statistical appendix and tables	p. 555
Bibliography	p. 578
Index	p. 611
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