Great War in History - Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present

The first comprehensive survey of interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).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).

Summary

This revised and updated edition 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.

Product details

• Authors: Winter Antoine Prost Jay Winter, Antoine Prost, Antoine (Universite de Paris I) Prost, Prost Antoine, Jay Winter, Jay (Yale University Winter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781108843164
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84316-4
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, International Relations, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history, Modern warfare