13150
Advanced seminar
SoSe 23: The First World War in a Global Perspective
Oliver Janz
Comments
The public memory of the First World War continues to be shaped by the Western Front: by images of endless trenches, positional warfare, and the industrial and attritional Battles of the Somme and Verdun. The war is read as a kind of European civil war, mainly between Germany, France and Great Britain. For a long time, this was also the dominant perspective in academic history. Only recently in First World War Studies has more attention been paid to the global dimensions of the conflict: to non-European powers like Japan and the Ottoman Empire and semi-independent Dominions like Canada, Australia and South Africa; to theaters of war outside Europe (e.g., Africa or the Middle East); to colonial empires (e.g., colonial soldiers and workers; the emergence of anticolonial nationalism), to global economic warfare and, last but not least, to the consequences of the war on neutral and non-belligerent countries in the Global South (e.g., Latin America). The course will discuss these aspects while also assessing how far 1914-1918-online, the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia of the First World War, takes them into account. close
Suggested reading
Hew Strachan: The First World War as a global war, in: First World War Studies 1 (2010), pp.3-14; Heike Liebau (ed.): The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia, Leiden 2010; Robert Gerwarth, Erez Manela (ed.): Empires at war, 1911-1923, Oxford 2014; Ana Pires, Jan Schmidt, Maria Ines Tato, Maria Ines (ed.): The Global First War, London 2021; 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net) close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2023-04-18 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-04-25 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-05-02 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-05-09 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-05-16 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-05-23 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-05-30 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-06-06 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-06-13 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-06-20 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-06-27 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-07-04 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-07-11 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2023-07-18 10:00 - 12:00