The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War IIndiana University Press, 1990 M11 22 - 188 pages In 1914 Europe descended into a slaughter unlike anything that had been seen before. Yet, far from seeing the conflict as a tragedy, many men welcomed it as a healthy development for society, a relief from peace. The Great Adventure explores the intellectual trends that made war seem a natural and high expression of social values. This is not a book about the specific causes of World War I, but a study of the mood in which it could take place. What the book uncovers is a complex of deeply ingrained attitudes about manhood, sex, power, maturity, boredom, and war that defined a culture in which war came to be seen as a positive option. Although the book focuses on attitudes in Great Britain and the United States of nearly a century ago, it makes a remarkably contemporary statement about men, women, and the culture of war., reviewing a previous edition or volume |
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... III : Peter Pan's Great Adventure 85 SEVEN A Purpose for Living 89 EIGHT The Best Place to Be 101 NINE Good - Bye to All That ? 113 RETROSPECT Notes Index 134 141 163 ILLUSTRATIONS Tom sees Arthur's mother for the first time as.
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