[PDF/ePub] The Great Class War 1914-1918 - Jacques R. Pauwels
The Great Class War 1914-1918
Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders.For European statesmen, a large-scale war could give their countries new colonial territories, important to growing capitalist economies. For the wealthy and ruling classes, war served as an antidote to social revolution, encouraging workers to exchange socialism's focus on international solidarity for nationalism's intense militarism. And for the working classes themselves, war provided an outlet for years of systemic militarization -- quite simply, they were hardwired to pick up arms, and to do so eagerly.To Pauwels, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914 -- traditionally upheld by historians as the spark that lit the powder keg -- was not a sufficient cause for war but rather a pretext seized upon by European
Product details: The Great Class War 1914-1918
Author : Jacques R. Pauwels
Pages : 632 pages
Publisher : Lorimer
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1459411056
ISBN-13 : 9781459411050

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