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CHICKERING RogerImperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918Second editionCambridge : Cambridge University press, 2004, XVI-228 p.Collection New approaches to european history ; 13978-0-521-83908-2GER 223Résumé éditeur :This important contribution to the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History explores the comprehensive impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany. It examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, government, politics, and industrial mobilization of wartime Germany. Unlike other existing surveys, however, Roger Chickering also offers a rich portrait of life on the home front: the pervasive effects of 'total war' on wealthy and poor, men and women, young and old, farmers and city-dwellers, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. This excellent, well-illustrated study of the military, political and socio-economic effects of the First World War is essential reading for all students of German and European history, as well as for those interested in the history of war and society. Now appearing in a second edition, first published in 2004, this accessible book reflects important scholarship in the field and boasts an expanded and revised bibliography.Roger Chickering is professor of history in the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University. He is an established scholar of modern Germany and is the author of Das Deutsche Reich und der Erste Weltkrieg (2002) ; Karl Lamprecht : a German Academic Life, 1856-1915 (1993) ; We men who feel most german : a cultural study of the Pan-German league, 1886-1914 (1984) ; and Imperial Germany and a world without war : the peace movement and german society 1892-1914 (1975)Axe de recherches :Équipe 3 : Du local aux empires : appartenances, institutions, conflits