TY  - JOUR
A1  - Das, Santanu
A1  - Hirschfeld, Gerhard
A1  - Jones, Heather
A1  - Keene, Jennifer
A1  - Kolonitskii, Boris
A1  - Winter, Jay
T1  - Global Perspectives on World War I. A Roundtable Discussion
T2  - Zeithistorische Forschungen - Studies in Contemporary History
N2  - The centennial of the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914 has already produced a wave of new books, exhibitions, documentaries, films, articles, websites, and research projects on the war and will continue to do so over the course of the next years, at least until the centenary of the armistice in 2018. One might witness this rising tide with mixed feelings: the arbitrariness of anniversaries and the ambivalent suggestive power of round numbers are a topic which merits reflection in and of its own. But the First World War has continued to be of lasting and even growing interest for historians over the past decades independently of anniversaries. Jay Winter and Antoine Prost have noted that the number of volumes that were catalogued in the British Library under the rubric of ›The World War, 1914 to 1918‹ quadrupled between 1980 and 2001, and Roger Chickering gathered further evidence for the ›enduring charm of the Great War‹ in 2011. At the same time, these last decades have witnessed a number of methodological shifts and changes within the historical profession, which also affected the study of the First World War. The centennial might therefore be a good opportunity for taking stock of the current state of affairs in World War I studies and for pondering their possible future directions. This is why our journal has decided to contribute to the rising tide of World War I publications with a roundtable discussion.
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1493
UR  - https://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2014/5009
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
SP  - 92
EP  - 119
PB  - ZZF – Centre for Contemporary History: Zeithistorische Forschungen
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -