[Get Solution] War and the Individual in Memoir and Popular Literature

As the West capitalized upon the advantages accrued through the gunpowder revolution, warfare began to undergo both subtle and drastic shifts.  As the social transformative effects of modernization – Nationalism, Libertarianism, Industrialization, Urbanization – affected the basic character of Western society, so too did warfare change.  On some levels these processes were slow – tactics, for example, followed the basic parameters established in the 1600s well into the Nineteenth Century.  Yet other changes – including conscription, nationalist ideology, and technological change – exerted dramatic shifts in the pre-existing paradigm.  By 1914, however, the weight of these many transformative forces overwhelmed not only how war was waged and perceived by the general public; it overturned the very bedrock of Western perceptions of self and community.