Visions and Ideas of Europe during the First World War

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Visions and Ideas of Europe during the First World War is written by Matthew D'Auria and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351678450 (ISBN 10) and 9781351678452 (ISBN 13).

Given the destruction and suffering caused by more than four years of industrialised warfare and economic hardship, scholars have tended to focus on the nationalism and hatred in the belligerent countries, holding that it led to a fundamental rupture of any sense of European commonality and unity. It is the central aim of this volume to correct this view and to highlight that many observers saw the conflict as a ‘European civil war’, and to discuss what this meant for discourses about Europe. Bringing together a remarkable range of compelling and highly original topics, this collection explores notions, images, and ideas of Europe in the midst of catastrophe.