From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India's struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

Looking back over the centuries, migration has always formed an important part of human existence. Spatial mobility emerges as a key driver of urban evolution, characterized by situation-specific combinations of opportunities, restrictions, and fears. This collection of essays investigates interactions between European cities and migration between the early modern period and the present. Building on conceptual approaches from history, sociology, and cultural studies, twelve contributions focus on policies, representations, and the impact on local communities more generally. Combining case-studies and theoretical reflections, the volume's contributions engage with a variety of topics and disciplinary perspectives yet also with several common themes. One revolves around problems of definition, both in terms of demarcating cities from their surroundings and of distinguishing migration in a narrower sense from other forms of short- and long-distance mobility. Further shared concerns include the integration of multiple analytical scales, contextual factors, and diachronic variables (such as urbanization, industrialization, and the digital revolution).

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India's struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

This book explores the relationship between diverse social movements and Marxist historical cultures during the second half of the twentieth century in Western Europe, with special emphasis on the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy. During the Cold War, Marxist ideas and understandings of history informed not only the traditional Communist Parties in Western Europe, but also influenced a range of new social movements that emerged in the 1970s in the wake of the 1968 student rebellions. The generation of 1968 was strongly influenced by neo-Marxist ideas that they subsequently carried into the new social movements. The volume asks how Marxist historical cultures influenced third world movements, anti-fascist movements, the peace movement and a whole host of other new social movements that signaled a new vibrancy of civil society in Western Europe from the 1970s onwards.

Obwohl die Zeitgeschichtsschreibung in der Bundesrepublik inzwischen die Schwelle zu den 1970er Jahren uberwinden konnte, ist die Selbstthematisierung der Fachgeschichte bislang kaum uber das Jahr 1965 hinausgelangt. Zwar haben die Debatten uber die Rolle der deutschen Historiker im Nationalsozialismus ebenfalls ein Licht auf ausgewahlte Grundervater der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft geworfen, aber uber die Angehorigen der so genannten "45er" (Dirk Moses) liegen bislang nur bruchstuckhaft Informationen vor. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird hier erstmals der Versuch unternommen, ausgewahlte Entwicklungen der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren naher zu ergrunden. Im Mittelpunkt steht das weit gespannte wissenschaftliche und publizistische Werk des fruheren Dusseldorfer Historikers Wolfgang J, Mommsen (1930 2004), von dem wesentliche Impulse sowohl auf die Erforschung des Deutschen Kaiserreichs als auch die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk Max Webers in der Bundesrepublik ausgegangen sind. Daneben steht Wolfgang J. Mommsen, der uber mehrere Jahre das Deutsche Historische Institut in London leitete, mit seinem Namen fur die Internationalisierung der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft. Der Band ruckt somit einen der bekanntesten westdeutschen Historiker der 1970er und 1980er Jahre in den Mittelpunkt, um den Hauptdeutungslinien, den Wirkungsmechanismen und den generationellen"