Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene
Ashgate
Hardback
282
Metropolitan Catastrophes: Scenarios Experiences and Commemorations of Total War explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises world wide in the era of the First and Second World Wars. It brings together cultural and urban historians and scholars of related disciplines including anthropology education geography and urban planning. The volume examines how the emergence of 'total' warfare blurred the boundaries between home and front and transformed cities into battlefields. The central contention of this volume that total war in the twentieth century has a significant but often overlooked metropolitan dimension is fully addressed thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.
Ashgate
Hardback
282
Metropolitan Catastrophes: Scenarios Experiences and Commemorations of Total War explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises world wide in the era of the First and Second World Wars. It brings together cultural and urban historians and scholars of related disciplines including anthropology education geography and urban planning. The volume examines how the emergence of 'total' warfare blurred the boundaries between home and front and transformed cities into battlefields. The central contention of this volume that total war in the twentieth century has a significant but often overlooked metropolitan dimension is fully addressed thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.