Writing the Great War : The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present / edited by Christoph Cornelissen, Arndt Weinrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornelissen, Christoph, editor.

Weinrich, Arndt, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 507 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Writing the Great War

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Understanding World War I: One Hundred Years of Historiographical Debate and Worldwide Commemoration / Christoph Cornelißen and Arndt Weinrich

Chapter 1. (Hi-)stories and Memories of the Great War in France. 1914-2018 / Nicolas Offenstadt

Chapter 2. Histories and Memories: Recounting the Great War in Belgium, 1914-2014 / Bruno Benvindo and Benoît Majerus

Chapter 3. British and Commonwealth Historiography of World War I / Jay Winter

Chapter 4. Of Expectations and Aspirations: South Asian Perspectives on World War I, the World, and the Subcontinent / Margret Frenz

Chapter 5. German Historiography on World War I, 1914-2019 / Christoph Cornelißen and Arndt Weinrich

Chapter 6. Austrian Historiography and Perspectives on the First World War: The Long Shadow of the "Just War" 1914-2018 / Oliver Rathkolb

Chapter 7. Russia in World War One: The Politics of Memory and Historiography / Boris Kolonitskii

Chapter 8. The Invention of Yugoslav Identity: Serbian and South Slav Historiographies on World War I, 1918-2018 / Stanislav Sretenović

Chapter 9. A Seminal "Anti-Catastrophe"? Historiography on the First World War in Poland / Piotr Szlanta

Chapter 10. A Historiographical Turn: Evolving Interpretations of Japan during World War I / Jan Schmidt and Naoko Shimazu

Chapter 11. Coming to Terms with the Imperial Legacy and the Violence of War: Turkish Historiography of WWI between Autarchy and a Plurality of Voices / Alexandre Toumarkine .

Chapter 12. Italian Memory and Historiography and the First World War / Angelo Ventrone

Chapter 13. Finding a Place for the First World War in American History / Jennifer D. Keene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789204575

1789204577