The Ordeal of Peace

Download or read book The Ordeal of Peace written by Adam R. Seipp and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a transnational perspective on demobilization this study demonstrates that the experience of mass industrial war generated remarkably similar pressures within both the defeated and victorious countries. Using as examples the important provincial centres of Munich and Manchester, it examines the experiences of European urban-dwellers from the last year of the war until the early 1920s, showing how peace could bring unexpected difficulties to economies and societies that had rapidly and fully adapted to the demands of industrial world war.