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- Title
Recent Historiography of the First World War (Part II).
- Authors
Kramer, Alan
- Abstract
Recent Historiography of the First World WarLocating recent international historiography on the First World War within the long-term context, this article discusses above all the internationalisation of the topic and the trend towards transnational history. It asks why the war is almost entirely unknown in the history and memory of some states, while it has powerful symbolic value in others. Was the war a kind of «laboratory» for later radicalised practices, or was there even a continuity of total war from the First to the Second World War? Is the debate in historiography between «coercion» and «consent» now resolved? How we should understand the «culture of war» - as the productof totalising tendencies driven by ever more militarised states, or of a process of popular self-mobilisation from below? Is the cultural history of war now the new orthodoxy?
- Subjects
HISTORIOGRAPHY of World War I; MILITARY historiography; HISTORY of globalization; HISTORY of war &; society; ECONOMICS of war; PROPAGANDA; 20TH century German military history; 20TH century French military history; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Modern European History, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
1611-8944
- Publication type
Article