The First World War : (Record no. 71720)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781442226814
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 940.3
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 940.3
Item number STO-F
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Storey, William Kelleher,
Relator term author.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The First World War :
Medium [Book] :
Remainder of title a concise global history /
Statement of responsibility, etc. William Kelleher Storey.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Second edition.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 205 pages ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Exploring world history.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. With reorganized chapters designed to enhance classroom use, this edition brings the text up to date with current scholarship and new maps for the Great War's centennial. The author argues that the Great War profoundly changed the ways in which people imagined the landscape around them and thought about technology and the environment. Before the war, Europe and its colonies generally regarded industrial technology as an instrument of modernity; the landscape existed to be conquered, divided, and ruled. During and after the war, the costs of conquest became much higher, raising significant doubts about the value of progress. Soldiers experienced profound personal degradation, physical injuries, and mental collapse in the midst of nightmarish, technologically induced environmental conditions, which they vividly remembered when they formed new identities in the postwar world. Although people did not abandon thoughts of technological advance, after the war they had a keener sense of modernity's costs. Without neglecting traditional themes, Storey's deft interweaving of the role of environment and technology enriches our understanding of the social, political, and military history of the war, not only in Europe, but worldwide.
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE
Target audience note All.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element World War, 1914-1918.
Topical term or geographic name entry element World War, 1914-1918
General subdivision Environmental aspects.
Topical term or geographic name entry element World War, 1914-1918
General subdivision Technology.
852 ## - LOCATION
Piece designation 51537
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Classification part 940.3 STO-F
Sublocation or collection 2nd Floor
Former shelving location Books
Copy number 1
Piece physical condition 2-Good
Location JZL-CUI
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02/28/2024 1 940.3 STO-F 2nd Floor 02/14/2024 09/12/2023 Books         Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 51537 Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 09/12/2023