TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paulo de Teodoro Matos
AU  - Helena Da Silva
AU  - José Miguel Sardica
PY  - 2019
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1660-6043
SN  - 9783034337373
TI  - War Hecatomb
T2  - International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century
DO  - 10.3726/b14929
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1110884
N2  - War Hecatomb. International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century, offers new insights on the impact of wars (namely, but not exclusively, World War I), by underlining its social and psychological consequences, particularly in public health, demography, and mentalities in different countries. Therefore, it is not just another book on World Wars, since it does not focus primarily on political, diplomatic, military or economic aspects. Instead, the work offers a brand new approach on these wars’ consequences, and especially on the civilizational significance of the Great War of 1914-1918. This original view over societies coping with the aftermath of the two world wars reveals how states and different agents were compelled to act and to face the new post-war reality, bringing to light an innovative social agenda while simultaneously trying to cope with the overwhelming phenomenon of physically and mentally scarred multitudes of veterans and their families. The book focuses on the consequences of conflicts in different perspectives and geographic locations. In twelve chapters, several aspects and effects of wars are analysed through different lens.
KW  - World War I, Public Health, Demography, Mentalities, 20th Century
LA  - English
ER  -