Writing the Great War

Christoph Cornelissen is Professor of Contemporary History at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Acknowledgments



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



Index