The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I - Adams (1990)
Michael C. C. Adams, "The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I"
Indiana University Press | 1990 | ISBN 025330136 | 168 pgs. | PDF | 84MB
In 1914 Europe descended into a slaughter unlike anything that had been seen before. Yet, far from seeing the conflict as a tragedy, many men welcomed it as a healthy development for society, a relief from peace. The Great Adventure explores the intellectual trends that made war seem a natural and high expression of social values. This is not a book about the specific causes of World War I, but a study of the mood in which it could take place. What the book uncovers is a complex of deeply ingrained attitudes about manhood, sex, power, maturity, boredom, and war that defined a culture in which war came to be seen as a positive option. Although the book focuses on attitudes in Great Britain and the United States of nearly a century ago, it makes a remarkably contemporary statement about men, women, and the culture of war.
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