The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918

by Eric Dorn Brose

Overview

This volume covers a fascinating period in the history of the German army, a time in which machine guns, airplanes, and weapons of mass destruction were first developed and used. Eric Brose traces the industrial development of machinery and its application to infantry, cavalry, and artillery tactics. He examines the modernity versus anti-modernity debate that raged after the Franco-Prussian war, arguing that the residue of years of resistance to technological change seriously undermined the German army during World War I.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199924066
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/14/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Eric Dorn Brose is Professor of History and Head of the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	3
1.	Old Soldiers	7
2.	Queen of the Battlefield	26
3.	Between Persistence and Change	43
4.	The Plans of Schlieffen	69
5.	Past and Present Collide	85
6.	No Frederick the Great	112
7.	Toward the Great War	138
8.	Rolling the Iron Dice	183
9.	Denouement	226
	Notes	241
	Bibliography and Abbreviations	293
	Index	305

Editorial Reviews

"well-written and engaging . The book is essential reading."— The Journal of Modern History

"Brose has done us a great service in analyzing the Imperial German Army's prewar decades so well."—German Studies Review

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