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Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War /
On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now 'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-415) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191516689 0191516686 9786611146788 6611146784 9781435605428 143560542X 9780191580116 0191580112 1281146781 9781281146786 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |