Absolute Destruction

by Hull, Isabel V.

• ISBN13: 9780801442582
• ISBN10: 0801442583
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-31
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

An analysis of the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army argues that the military regime increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies, including civilian property and lives, as the only guarantee of the nation's security.

Author Biography

Isabel V. Hull is John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	viii
Acknowledgments	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
I Suppression Becomes Annihilation: Southwest Africa, 1904--1907	5	(86)
Waterberg	7	(37)
Pursuit and Annihilation	44	(26)
Death by Imprisonment	70	(21)
II Military Culture	91	(106)
National Politics and Military Culture	93	(17)
Lessons of 1870-71: Institutions and Law	110	(21)
Standard Practices	131	(28)
Doctrines of Fear and Force	159	(23)
Stopping the Process	182	(15)
III The First World War	197	(127)
Waging War, 1914--1916: Risk, Extremes, and Limits	199	(27)
Civilians as Objects of Military Necessity	226	(37)
The Armenian Genocide	263	(28)
Repetition and Self-Destruction	291	(33)
Conclusions and Implications	324	(11)
Bibliography	335	(34)
Index	369