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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494571503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2021

ISBN

1-78920-457-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 507 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

940.3072

Soggetti

Collective memory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--