Writing the Great War

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.

Arndt Weinrich is DAAD Lecturer in History at Sorbonne University.

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 Sretenovic 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