Format:
1 Online-Ressource (592 p.)
ISBN:
9781789204698
Content:
From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India's struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Understanding World War I: One Hundred Years of Historiographical Debate and Worldwide Commemoration -- Chapter 1. (Hi)stories and Memories of the Great War in France: 1914-2018 -- Chapter 2. Histories and Memories: Recounting the Great War in Belgium, 1914-2018 -- Chapter 3. British and Commonwealth Historiography of World War I: 1914-2018 -- Chapter 4. Of Expectations and Aspirations: South Asian Perspectives on World War I, the World, and the Subcontinent, 1918-2018 -- Chapter 5. German Historiography on World War I, 1914-2019 -- Chapter 6. Austrian Historiography and Perspectives on World War I: The Long Shadow of the "Just War," 1914-2018 -- Chapter 7. Russia and World War I: The Politics of Memory and Historiography, 1914-2018 -- Chapter 8. The Invention of Yugoslav Identity: Serbian and South Slav Historiographies on World War I, 1918-2018 -- Chapter 9. A Seminal "Anti-Catastrophe"? Historiography on World War I in Poland, 1914-2019 -- Chapter 10. A Historiographical Turn: Evolving Interpretations of Japan during World War I, 1914-2019 -- Chapter 11. Coming to Terms with the Imperial Legacy and the Violence of War: Turkish Historiography of World War I between Autarchy and a Plurality of Voices, 1914-2018 -- Chapter 12. Italian Memory, Historiography, and World War I: 1914-2019 -- Chapter 13. Finding a Place for World War I in American History: 1914-2018 -- Index
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781789204698
Author information:
Weinrich, Arndt 1979-
Author information:
Cornelißen, Christoph 1958-
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