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A 4 page article analysis of J.S. Gordon's essay "What We Lost in the Great War." The writer argues that Gordon offers a different, insightful perspective on history that discusses not only events, but puts those events into the context of how they were viewed by the people at the time. In other words, Gordon makes his readers look at the history of the modern era in a new, and insightful, way. In order to accomplish this, Gordon summarizes history in a writing style that is both concise and effective and concludes his article by offering a reconciliation with the past. No additional sources cited.
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"How did we get in this mess?" The traditional answer, since World War I, has been to assume that Western societies, at their heart, are deeply flawed. Gordon (1992) offers
a different, insightful perspective on history that discusses not only events, but puts those events into the context of how they were viewed by the people at the time. In
other words, Gordon makes his readers look at the history of the modern era in a new, and insightful, way. In order to accomplish this, Gordon summarizes history in
a writing style that is both concise and effective and concludes his article by offering a reconciliation with the past. These three characteristics serve to make this an exemplary
look at twentieth century history. The study of World War I that is given in most classrooms generally looks at the causes of this conflict in such detail, that is,
focusing on the treaties and alliances that were in place at the time, that the reasons behind the war get lost in the shuffle. In other words, it is
the old clich? about not being able to see the forest for the trees. A cursory look at WWI is no more enlightening, as this simply asserts, as Gordon states,
that WWI started because "a lunatic murdered a man of feathers and uniforms who had no real importance whatsoever" (p. 81). Gordon shows that WWI began primarily because European leaders
had been doing a lot of "saber rattling" that they did not really mean. Just as these leaders did not realize the full implications of technological warfare, they did
not realize how quickly and irrevocably war could become inevitable. However, before examining WWI directly, Gordon first looks at the supreme confidence of the Victorian age. Gordon argues quite
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