Christoph Cornelissen

Arndt Weinrich

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.

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Laurent Jalabert

Reiner Marcowitz

La Grande Guerre a fortement marqué les sociétés occidentales du XXe siècle jusqu'à nos jours, tout particulièrement l’Allemagne et la France. Si l’histoire des conflits mondiaux leur est commune, le cheminement mémoriel de la Première Guerre diffère d’un pays à l’autre. La construction du souvenir et de la mémoire est au cœur des textes proposés..

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