{"id":44389,"date":"2025-01-17T21:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2025-01-17T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:39:50","slug":"perry-anderson-disputing-disastera-sextet-on-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44389","title":{"rendered":"Perry Anderson, \u201eDisputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <em>Disputing Disaster<\/em>, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war guilt; Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France; Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who, unique among scholars of the Great War, played a part in pitching his country into it; Paul W. Schroeder, the American expert on the system of Europe &#8211; an interstate relations and its breakdown in 1914; Keith Wilson, the one radical deviant from a patriotic consensus about Britain\u2019s role in the outbreak of the fighting; and, from Australia (summoned into the war as a dominion), Christopher Clark, acclaimed author of <em>The Sleepwalkers<\/em>.<br><br><em>Disputing Disaster<\/em> offers a compelling analysis of the major competing versions of the genesis of the Great War; fresh light on the political background of its leading historians; and a novel synthesis of the determining pressures that brought the conflict to pass.<br><br>Perry Anderson is emeritus in History at UCLA, and an editor at <em>New Left Review<\/em>. 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