The last war?

Gregory, Adrian

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“…However, a large number of soldiers were still acting on compulsion and bribery and the majority of the male population chose not to "volunteer. " 43 Showing off military identity for spectators was a status-enhancing action. Th us dressing up in uniforms, in public or at private occasions, could serve a man's vicarious performance and representation of military responsibility in spite of not participating on the actual battlefront.…”

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Is beauty useless?

Kollnitz¹

2021

Fashion, Society, and the First World War

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Is beauty useless?

Kollnitz¹

2021

Fashion, Society, and the First World War

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“…69 Until 4 August 1914 only a minority were in favour of intervention. 70 After that, the mood shifted to supporting intervention, but enthusiasm «was quite socially limited, probably most evident amongst young men of the middle classes» and strongest among intellectuals. 71 J. Horne (ed.…”

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Recent Historiography of the First World War

Kramer

2014

J Mod Eur Hist

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Recent Historiography of the First World War Locating recent international historiography on the First World War within the long-term context, this article discusses above all the internationalisation of the topic and the trend towards transnational history. It asks why the war is almost entirely unknown in the history and memory of some states, while it has powerful symbolic value in others. Was the war a kind of «laboratory» for later radicalised practices, or was there even a continuity of total war from the First to the Second World War? Is the debate in historiography between «coercion» and «consent» now resolved? How we should understand the «culture of war» – as the product of totalising tendencies driven by ever more militarised states, or of a process of popular self-mobilisation from below? Is the cultural history of war now the new orthodoxy?

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“…While cartelization had been a topic of heated controversy during the First World War and the early 1920s, being conflated with 'profiteering', criticism had subsided by the mid-1920s, facilitating a laissez-faire approach on behalf of government and the courts. 65 Analysis of the number of uses of the term 'profiteers' in The Times and Hansard from 1914-38 shows that its frequency was highest during the years 1920-2 (72.0 times per year in The Times and 111.3 in Hansard) but then fell to a low of 13.0 and 30.6 times per year respectively over the period 1930-8. 66 High inflation over 1914-20 had led to a search for culprits, in which the 'profiteer' featured prominently, while the subsequent trend of falling prices depoliticized this issue.…”

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The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population†

Scott

2020

The Economic History Review

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The anatomy of Britain's interwar super-rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 'millionaire' population † By PETER SCOTT *This article examines the composition of Britain's 'millionaire' population during the late 1920s and early 1930s, based on data for living millionaires (in contrast to previous studies, which have focused on wealth at death). Using tabulated data compiled by the Inland Revenue for all persons on incomes over £50,000 per annum, it explores the factor incomes of Britain's millionaire population and their main sources of income, by sector. It then analyses a unique individual-level data set of British millionaires, compiled by the Inland Revenue for the 1928/9 tax year, to show their sectoral and geographical composition. Most millionaires are shown to be 'businesspeople' rather than rentiers, while landed millionaires represented only a small proportion of the total. Businesspeople millionaires are shown to be disproportionately active in a relatively narrow range of sectors, the common characteristic of which was the potential to generate abnormal profits, mainly through cartelization or amalgamation. Thus, rather than revealing the sectors most important to national wealth, or competitive advantage, the clustering of millionaires primarily reflects rising barriers to competition in interwar Britain and the abnormal profits they generated.

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The last war?

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Is beauty useless?

Is beauty useless?

Recent Historiography of the First World War

The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population†

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