In a compact but complete and clear account, this book explores the first world war in a truly global perspective. Put a human face to the war, William Kelleher Storey takes individual decisions of account and experiments and the environmental and technological factors such as food, geography, the workforce and weapons. He argues that the war has profoundly altered the way in which individuals imagine the landscape around them and thought to the technology and the environment. Before the war, Europe and its colonies generally considered industrial technology as an instrument of the modernity of the landscape was to be conquered, divided and ruled. During and after the war, the costs of conquest has become much higher, raising major doubts about the value of the progress. Soldiers had a deep personal degradation, physical injuries and mental collapse in nightmare, technologically induced environmental conditions, which clearly remind them when they formed new identities in the second world war. Although people did not abandon the thoughts of technological advance, after the war, they had a more lively sense of cost of modernity. Without neglecting the themes of Storey traditional skillful interweaving of the role of the environment and technology enriches our understanding of the social, political and military history of the war, not only in Europe, but also around the world. To learn more...
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