The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 21)

A vast amount of literature has emerged on the First World War and its repercussions since the Armistice. Two leading historians therefore present this comparative analysis of the ways in which the history has been written and interpreted. Identifying three generations of historians, literary scholars, film directors and writers who have commented upon the war, they assess social and cultural interpretations as well as diplomatic and military studies, seen primarily through the eyes of French, German and British writers.

History

Winter, Jay

PROST, Antoine

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Cambridge University Press

This important study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.

In the Wake of War: `Les Anciens Combattants' and French Society 1914-1939 (The Legacy of the Great War, 3)

Military

Berg Publishers

Translated from the French by Helen McPhail, this important study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.

Rene Cassin and Human Rights: From The Great War To The Universal Declaration (Human Rights in History)

Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.

René Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration (Human Rights in History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

<p>This revised and updated edition of The Great War in History 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. Jay Winter and Antoine Prost assess not only diplomatic and military studies but also the social and cultural interpretations of the war across academic and popular history, family history, and public history, including at museums, on the stage, on screen, in art, and at sites of memory. They provide a fascinating case study of the practice of history and the first survey of the ways in which the Centenary deepened and deflected both public and professional interpretations of the war. This will be essential reading for scholars and students in history, war studies, European history and international relations.</p>

<p>Antoine Prost's contributions to French history have enabled us to understand the failure of fascism in France and why the Republic survived the humiliation of occupation and collaboration in the Second World War. He is the pre-eminent historian of civil society in France. For the first time his seminal articles have been translated into English and collected in this single volume. Beginning with his classic account of war memorials, through his pioneering study of the people of a popular quarter of Paris in 1936, and of the troubled history of commemorating the Algerian war, this book expertly takes us through republican representations of war and peace, urban spaces and social identity, and discourse and social conflict in republican France. Amongst this range of topics, Prost considers the notion of social class and deference, the multiple uses of myth, the secularization of religious imagery, the centrality of primary schools in French political culture, and insults as staples of French political rhetoric. Included here are his famous essays 'Verdun' and 'War Memorials of the Great War', which have been hailed as indispensable additions to the study of European cultural history. Also notable is his fascinating investigation of rites de passage in Orléans, which artfully reveals how complex and semiologically rich rites de passage can be.This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to gain a firm understanding of the history of nineteenth and twentieth century France and of the work of one of the most influential cultural historians of our day.</p>

Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (The Legacy of the Great War)

Europe

Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (The Legacy of the Great War Series)

1 450 000 morts, 3 à 4 millions de blessés, 600 000 veuves, 760 000 orphelins : c'est le bilan, rien que pour la France, de la guerre de 1914-1918, celle que l'on appelle la Grande Guerre. Pour expliquer à un enfant de huit ans ce terrible massacre, un historien reconnu répond aux questions de son petit-fils : qu'est-ce que la mobilisation ? Qu'est-ce qu'une tranchée ? Comment vivaient - et mouraient - les poilus ? Comment fonctionnaient les usines pendant la guerre ? Qu'est-ce qu'ont fait les femmes ? Pourquoi les Etats-Unis sont-ils entrés dans la guerre en 1917 ?... Et enfin : comment est-on parvenu à la paix ?

La Grande Guerre expliquée à mon petit-fils

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

SEUIL

La Grande Guerre expliquée en images

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare, Series Number 21)

In the Wake of War: `Les Anciens Combattants' and French Society 1914-1939 (The Legacy of the Great War, 3)

In the Wake of War: `Les Anciens Combattants' and French Society 1914-1939 (The Legacy of the Great War, 3)

René Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration (Human Rights in History)

The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (The Legacy of the Great War)

Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (The Legacy of the Great War Series)

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