Towards an interconnected history of World War I: Europe and beyond
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2016Author
Barry, Gearóid
Dal Lago, Enrico
Healy, Róisín
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Barry, Gearóid , Dal Lago, Enrico , & Healy, Róisín (2016). Towards an interconnected history of World War I: Europe and beyond. In Gearóid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago, & Róisín Healy (Eds.), Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I. Leiden: Brill.
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Abstract
In recent years, the historiography of World War I has undergone a very significant
transformation in terms of its geographical scope and thematic reach. While most
studies of World War I up to the 1990s focused on national experiences, a generation
of new scholars subsequently began analyzing the War in comparative perspective
across Europe and the world.1
The following decade saw the emergence of a global
approach to First World War studies, pioneered by Hew Strachan and Michael
Neiberg and developed in a range of recent reference works.2
Jay Winter has
identified a significant increase in studies of the War as a transnational phenomenon,
defined by Ian Tyrell as an emphasis on “the movement of peoples, ideas,
technologies, and institutions across the border.”3
Due to both the transnational
training of World War I historians and the collapse of political and ideological
dichotomies with the end of the Cold War, a transnational view has emerged in
opposition to an international approach which privileges the diplomatic history of the
War.4