Rudolf Kucera Ota Konrád Paths out of the Apocalypse (Hardback) Greater War

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Paths out of the ApocalypseCondition: NewSubtitle: Physical Violence in the Fall and Renewal of Central Europe, 1914-1922ISBN-10: 0192896784EAN: 9780192896780ISBN: 9780192896780Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/24/2022Description: Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War. It compares attitudes toward, and experiences and practices of, physical violence in the mostly Czech-speaking territories of Bohemia and Moravia, the German-speaking territories that would constitute the Republic of Austria after 1918, and the mostly German-speaking region of South Tyrol. Based on research in national and local archives and copious secondary literature, the study argues that, in the context of total war, physical violence became a predominant means of conceptualizing and expressing social-political demands as well as a means of demarcating various notions of community and belonging. The authors apply an interdisciplinary understanding of violence informed by sociological and psychological theories as well as by rigorous empirical historiographical approach. First, they examine the most severe kind of physical violence - murder - against the backdrop of shifting scientific and media discourses during the war and its immediate aftermath. Second, the authors use numerous cases of collective violence, ranging from less serious everyday conflicts to massive hunger demonstrations and riots, to unravel its 'language', thus deciphering the attitudes and values shared among an ever-growing group of perpetrators. Paths out of the Apocalypse thus fundamentally rethinks some key topics currently debated in the scholarship on early twentieth-century Central Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism, and modern European comparative social and cultural history.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 163mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 694gAuthor: Rudolf Kucera, Ota KonrádGenre: HistoryBook Series: Greater WarTopic: Military HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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