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- Title
Neue Forschungen zum Ersten Weltkrieg.
- Authors
Meteling, Wencke
- Abstract
The article explores the different approaches to analyze the First World War in Germany, France and England. Whereas the discussion about this war has completely vanished from the public discourse in Germany, it is still a vibrant theme in England and France in the 21st century. When discussing an historical event such as the First World War, it is constitutive to distinguish between history as an academic discipline, the politics of history, and popular culture. In England and in France, the aforementioned ways of referring to the First World War are hardly reconcilable with one another. Nevertheless, the tensions between them contribute to a richer and more differentiated analysis of that war, which now also deals with themes such as collective, communicative, and cultural memory.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; FRANCE; GERMANY; HISTORY &; politics; WORLD War I; FRENCH politics &; government, 1914-1940; BRITISH politics &; government; NATIONALISM &; collective memory; COLLECTIVE memory
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2011, Vol 37, Issue 4, p614
- ISSN
0340-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/gege.2011.37.4.614