The Great War in History

Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present
2. Revised Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-82396-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 196 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

This revised and updated edition of The Great War in History provides the first survey of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020. It demonstrates how the history of the Great War has now gone global, and how the internet revolution has affected the way we understand the conflict. Jay Winter and Antoine Prost assess not only diplomatic and military studies but also the social and cultural interpretations of the war across academic and popular history, family history, and public history, including at museums, on the stage, on screen, in art, and at sites of memory. They provide a fascinating case study of the practice of history and the first survey of the ways in which the Centenary deepened and deflected both public and professional interpretations of the war. This will be essential reading for scholars and students in history, war studies, European history and international relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winter, Jay

Prost, Antoine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; Preface to the English edition (2004); Preface to the English edition (2020); Introduction; 1. Three historiographical configurations; 2. Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims?; 3. Generals and ministers: who commanded and how?; 4. Soldiers: how did they wage war?; 5. Businessmen, industrialists and bankers: how was the economic war waged?; 6. Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution?; 7. Civilians: how did they make war and survive it?; 8. Agents of memory: Witnesses and historians, 1918–2000; 9. A new century: the age of the internet; 10. Writing the history of the Great War, 2000–2020; Conclusion: After the Centenary; Select bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Prost, Antoine
Antoine Prost is Professor Emeritus at University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and was President of the French Commission on the Centenary of the Great War (2012-19). He is the co-author (with Gerd Krumeich) of Verdun 1916, une histoire franco-allemande (2015) and the author of Les Anciens Combattants et la société française (1914-1939) (1977) and Les Français de la Belle Époque (2019).

Winter, Jay
Jay Winter is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, Connecticut. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge, 1995) and editor of The Cambridge History of the First World War (Cambridge, 2014).