Disputing disaster : a sextet on the Great War /
"Perry Anderson picks from the highly charged historiography of the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the co...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Verso Books,
2024.
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| Summary: | "Perry Anderson picks from the highly charged historiography of the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who unlike any other scholar on the Grear War was himself a leading actor in pitching his country into it; Paul W. Schroeder, the American expert on the system of European interstate relations and its breakdown in 1914; Keith Wilson, the one radical deviant from a patriotic consensus in Britain about the country's role in the outbreak of the fighting; and, from Australia (a dominion dragooned into the Great War by the British), the acclaimed Christopher Clark"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 373 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781804297674 1804297674 |