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