Product Description: This is the second volume of a pioneering two-volume comparative history of the capital cities of Britain, France and Germany during the Great War. Leading historians explore these wartime cities, from the railway stations where newcomers took on new identities to the streets they surveyed and the pubs, cafes and theatres they frequented, and examine notions of identity, the sites and rituals of city life, and wartime civic and popular culture...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays is based provides a reassessment of Western European trade unionism in the four decades or so before World War I. The essays have been written by teams of historians of different nationalities for comparative study...read more

Product Description: This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. The authors have compiled a vast array of data and have drawn an original and coherent portrait of European cities at war. Contributors from several fields bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, and represent the best of recent scholarship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)