Cambridge Scholars Publishing informs that the title ‘The First World
War: Analysis and Interpretation’ (both volumes 1 and 2) has been selected to
be showcased in its July marketing campaign, as part of commemoration of the
Battle of the Somme centenary. You are able to view the Press Release by clicking here.
This
volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University
of Rome in June 2014, which brought together scholars from different countries
to re-analyse and re-interpret the events of the First World War, one hundred
years after a young Bosnian Serb student from the “Mlada Bosna,” Gavrilo
Princip, “lit the fuse” and ignited the conflict which was to forever change
the world. The Great War – initially on a European and then on a world scale –
demonstrated the fragility of the international system of the European balance
of powers, and determined the dissolution of the great multinational empires
and the need to redraw the map of Europe according to the principles of
national sovereignty. This book provides new insights into theories of this
conflict, and is characterized by internationality, interdisciplinarity and a
combination of different research methods. The contributions, based on archival
documents from various different countries, international and local
historiography, and on the analysis of newspaper articles, postcards,
propaganda material, memorials and school books, examine ideological and
historiographical debates, the memory of the war and its most important
contemporary and popular narratives, and the use of propaganda for the
mobilization of public opinion, in addition to military, social, political,
economic and psychological aspects of the conflict.
