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- catalog abstract ""History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his new book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of defeat - the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I - Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural responses of vanquished nations to the experience of military defeat." "Drawing on reaction from every level of society, Schivelbusch investigates the sixty-year period in which the world moved from regional to global conflagration, and from gentlemanly conduct of war to total mutual destruction. He shows how conquered societies question the foundations of their identities and strive to emulate the victors: the South to become a "better North," the French to militarize their schools on the Prussian model, the Germans to adopt all things American. He charts the losers' paradoxical equation of military failure with cultural superiority as they generate myths to glorify their pasts and explain their losses: the nostalgic "plantation legend" after the collapse of the Confederacy, the new cult of Joan of Arc in vanquished France, the fiction of the stab in the back by "foreign" elements in postwar Germany. From cathartic epidemics of "dance-madness" to the revolutions that so often follow battlefield humiliation, Schivelbusch finds remarkable similarities across cultures."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Kultur der Niederlage. English".
- catalog contributor b12737893.
- catalog coverage "France Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 Psychological aspects.".
- catalog coverage "Germany Social conditions 1918-1933.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Psychological aspects.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his new book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of defeat - the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I - Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural responses of vanquished nations to the experience of military defeat." "Drawing on reaction from every level of society, Schivelbusch investigates the sixty-year period in which the world moved from regional to global conflagration, and from gentlemanly conduct of war to total mutual destruction. He shows how conquered societies question the foundations of their identities and strive to emulate the victors: the South to become a "better North," the French to militarize their schools on the Prussian model, the Germans to adopt all things American. He charts the losers' paradoxical equation of military failure with cultural superiority as they generate myths to glorify their pasts and explain their losses: the nostalgic "plantation legend" after the collapse of the Confederacy, the new cult of Joan of Arc in vanquished France, the fiction of the stab in the back by "foreign" elements in postwar Germany. From cathartic epidemics of "dance-madness" to the revolutions that so often follow battlefield humiliation, Schivelbusch finds remarkable similarities across cultures."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-391) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: On Being Defeated 1 -- 1 The American South 37 -- 2 France 103 -- 3 Germany 189 -- Epilogue: On Falling 289.".
- catalog extent "403 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0805044213 (hc.)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Metropolitan Books,".
- catalog spatial "France Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 Psychological aspects.".
- catalog spatial "Germany Social conditions 1918-1933.".
- catalog spatial "Germany.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "303.6/6 21".
- catalog subject "Defeat (Psychology) Case studies.".
- catalog subject "E468.9 .S3513 2003".
- catalog subject "Military history, Modern Case studies.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics Case studies.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Germany.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Psychological aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: On Being Defeated 1 -- 1 The American South 37 -- 2 France 103 -- 3 Germany 189 -- Epilogue: On Falling 289.".
- catalog title "Kultur der Niederlage. English".
- catalog title "The culture of defeat : on national trauma, mourning, and recovery / Wolfgang Schivelbusch ; translated by Jefferson Chase.".
- catalog type "text".