Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany.

Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press, 2005. Hardcover First Edition (2005); so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First Edition (2005); so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good+ in a Near Fine DJ: The Book shows a former owner's name inscribed in ink at the front endpaper; the boards are slightly bowed; about sixty pages show a mild bump to the bottom corner and another fifity pages or so show a very mild blow to the fore-edge; a tiny, very faint spot of soil to the fore-edge; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing several imperfections. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Still possesses that pleasant new book fragrance. The DJ shows very mild rubbing along the top edge; else flawless; unclipped. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.9 x 1.15 inches). xi, 384 pages. Language: English. Weight: 27.4 ounces. Hardback with DJ. sabel Virginia Hull (born 1949) is John Stambaugh Professor Emerita of History and the former chair of the history department at Cornell University. She specializes in German history from 1700 to 1945, with a focus on sociopolitics, political theory, and gender/sexuality. Since January 2006, Hull has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern History. The position for which Hull is best known, embodied in her two most recent books, is that Germany before and during World War I was uniquely indifferent to international law among the great powers, and (contrary to established historiography) that its responsibility for bringing the war about was much greater than that of the Allied powers. Michael Geyer of the University of Chicago has stated that "Isabel V. Hull is one of the most accomplished German historians and surely the best of her generation," and she has been described as "one of America's leading scholars on the role of fascism in history." She is a winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and the Leo Gershoy Award and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural International Research Support Prize by the Max Weber Stiftung and the Historisches Kolleg.