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Article: European Culture in the Great War.(Review) (book review)
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- September 1, 2000
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European Culture in the Great War The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918
Edited by Aviel Roshwald and Richard Stites Cambridge University Press xii + 430 pp 40 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 521 57015 8
REVOLUTION WAS ON EVERYONE'S LIPS in 1848. This is the starting point for J. W. Burrow's new history of ideas, The Crisis of Reason. The aftermath of the tide of rebellion which swept Europe in that year provides a backdrop against which the intellectual battles of subsequent years were fought. And those battles began in surprising places: `In the spring of 1848 ... the main excitement for Charles Darwin was his discovery of the existence of ...