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Absolute Destruction

Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

By: Isabel V. Hull

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Absolute Destruction

Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

By: Isabel V. Hull

In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures of this distinctively German military culture that the Army, in its drive to annihilate the enemy military, did not shrink from the utter destruction of civilian property and lives. Carried to its extreme, the logic of "military necessity" found real security only in extremities of destruction, in the "silence of the graveyard."Hull begins with a dramatic account, based on fresh archival work, of the German Army's slide from administrative murder to genocide in German Southwest Africa (1904–7). The author then moves back to 1870 and the war that inaugurated the Imperial era in German history, and analyzes the genesis and nature of this specifically German military culture and its operations in colonial warfare. In the First World War the routines perfected in the colonies were visited upon European populations. Hull focuses on one set of cases (Belgium and northern France) in which the transition to total destruction was checked (if barely) and on another (Armenia) in which "military necessity" caused Germany to accept its ally's genocidal policies even after these became militarily counterproductive. She then turns to the Endkampf (1918), the German General Staff's plan to achieve victory in the Great War even if the homeland were destroyed in the process—a seemingly insane campaign that completes the logic of this deeply institutionalized set of military routines and practices. Hull concludes by speculating on the role of this distinctive military culture in National Socialism's military and racial policies.Absolute Destruction has serious implications for the nature of warmaking in any modern power. At its heart is a warning about the blindness of bureaucratic routines, especially when those bureaucracies command the instruments of mass death.

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A Scrap of Paper

Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War

By: Isabel V. Hull

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A Scrap of Paper

Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War

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In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war. Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played—where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.

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Absolute Destruction

Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

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The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918

By: Isabel V. Hull

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The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918

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This volume analyzes the entourage of the last German Kaiser to explain the peculiar decisions taken by Germany's leaders from 1888 to 1918.

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Cambridge University Press

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052153321X

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Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815

By: Isabel V. Hull

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Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815

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With great intellectual energy and resourcefulness, [Hull] has placed a new set of issues on our scholarly agenda. After reading Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815, no one will view this period in quite the same way again."--James H. Sheehan, Times Literary Supplement"Hull analyzes the evolving bureaucratic understanding of heterosexuality during the transition from absolutist moral regulation of sexual practices for the public good to the formation of a bourgeois civil society of privacy and property. . . . [She] offers a remarkable look at the sexual dimension of the liberal social contract and at those whose sexual liberty was assured thereby."--Choice"Isabel Hull's book is a very rich study, not only in detail and scope, but also in its theoretical implications--for the development of modern ideas of sexuality, for the development of civil society, and for the role of the state in regulating sexual matters of all types. It is bold, risky, often funny, elegant in its argument, beautifully written--and speaks to an audience far beyond its likely specialist readers."--from the Berkshire Prize citation

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Absolute Destruction

Absolute Destruction

A Scrap of Paper

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Absolute Destruction

Absolute Destruction

A Scrap of Paper

A Scrap of Paper

The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918

The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918

Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815

Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815

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