First World War
The Impact of the First World War on British Society Author(s): Arthur Marwick Reviewed work(s): Source: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 51-63 Published by: Sage Publications, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/259966 . Accessed: 17/03/2013 23:29
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The War
Impact on British
of
the
First
World
Society
ArthurMarwick
A generationago ProfessorCyril Falls, in his inaugurallecture as Chichele Professor of the History of War in the University of the Oxford,attributed disreputeinto which he felt warstudieshad fallen to the 'fallacious'theory 'that the major, if not the sole, object of history should be the study of the artisan,the labourer and the peasant'.1 Today it has become a commonplacethat this very preoccupation with the artisan,the labourer,and the peasantmust, in the twentieth centuryat any rate, lead to a detailedstudy of war and war's'impact'on society.Yet even now, despitethe vast quantities of books and articles called forth in recognition of the fiftieth of anniversary the outbreakof the first World War, it cannot be said that the literatureon the Britishsocial experienceduringand immediatelyafter the war is extensive. This state of
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The War
Impact on British
of
the
First
World
Society
ArthurMarwick
A generationago ProfessorCyril Falls, in his inaugurallecture as Chichele Professor of the History of War in the University of the Oxford,attributed disreputeinto which he felt warstudieshad fallen to the 'fallacious'theory 'that the major, if not the sole, object of history should be the study of the artisan,the labourer and the peasant'.1 Today it has become a commonplacethat this very preoccupation with the artisan,the labourer,and the peasantmust, in the twentieth centuryat any rate, lead to a detailedstudy of war and war's'impact'on society.Yet even now, despitethe vast quantities of books and articles called forth in recognition of the fiftieth of anniversary the outbreakof the first World War, it cannot be said that the literatureon the Britishsocial experienceduringand immediatelyafter the war is extensive. This state of