Jay Winter is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, Connecticut. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge, 1995) and editor of The Cambridge History of the First World War (Cambridge, 2014).
List of figures
Preface to the English edition (2004)
Preface to the English edition (2020)
Introduction
1. Three historiographical configurations
2. Politicians and diplomats: why war and for what aims?
3. Generals and ministers: who commanded and how?
4. Soldiers: how did they wage war?
5. Businessmen, industrialists and bankers: how was the economic war waged?
6. Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution?
7. Civilians: how did they make war and survive it?
8. Agents of memory: Witnesses and historians, 1918-2000
9. A new century: the age of the internet
10. Writing the history of the Great War, 2000-2020
Conclusion: After the Centenary
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Index.
