The Long End of the First World War

About the Book Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Heike Liebau, Anorthe Wetzel The present book is based on the Herrenhausen Symposium "The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories" which took place at Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany, in May 2017. It follows on from the preceding conference "The World during the First World War-Perceptions, Experiences, and Consequences" in October 2013. One of the most significant results of the first symposium was that shifting the perspective away from Europe, especially Western Europe, means-among other things-shifting the focus from the beginning of the War to its end and to its long-term consequences. This inspired us to take "The Long End" as the central focus for the 2017 symposium and to look more closely at the multi-layered endings of the First World War in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Unsettling the notion of a static and clearly defined "end" of the War, the conference discussed links between experience, historiography, and commemoration. The aims of this volume are threefold. Firstly, it challenges a static, mainly Eurocentric periodization of the First World War not only by globalizing the picture geographically but also by foregrounding questions of social or environmental history. Secondly, it considers the critical incorporation of new sources to be very important in defining new research approaches. Sources other than official textual documents stored in state archives continuously come to the fore, such as photographs, folksongs, sound recordings and material objects. Thirdly, the editors are convinced that it is a present-day imperative to explore how historiography and politics of memory influence one another and to discuss the implications of these processes for research. The chapters compiled in this volume are revised versions of papers discussed in Hanover in May 2017 and reflect the symposium's conceptual and structural approach, which brought together

ContentsAbout the Book 7Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Heike Liebau and Anorthe WetzelI. New Approaches, Methodologies and SourcesThe First World War:Climax and Crisis of Imperialism 17Radhika DesaiThe First World War and the Global Environment: A View from South Asia 45Iftekhar IqbalMalaria and the Legacy of the First World War in the Ottoman Empire 67Chris GratienEast Africa and the Post-War Question of Global Arms Control 85Felix BrahmMigration and the Long First World War in Tunisia 109Christopher RomingerII. Historiographies and Remembrance2014: An Invented Anniversary?Museum Exhibitions on the First World War in Russia 121Oksana NagornajaThe First World War in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia: Commemoration, New Research and Debates around the Centennial 137Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange and Heike Liebau"Carnival of Hell. The First World War and the Senses": Exhibiting War 175Franziska DunkelThe Material Culture of Remembrance and Identity: Imperial War Graves Commission Sites of South Africa, India, Canada and Australia on the Western Front 199Hanna SmythBetween Persistent Differences and Vagueness: School Textbook Accounts about the First World War 209Barbara Christophe and Kerstin SchwedesThe Long End of the Ottoman Empire: Historiographical Discourses on the First World Warin the Consolidating Republic of Turkey 235Veronika Hager"Digging Deep, Crossing Far". A contemporary art project reaching from the First World War Halfmoon Campin Wünsdorf to present-day Lahore 267Julia TiekeEditors, Authors and further Contributors 293

Katrin Bromber, Dr. phil., Katharina Lange, Dr. phil., und Heike Liebau, Dr. phil., sind wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen am Leibniz- Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. Anorthe Wetzel ist stellvertretende Leiterin des Veranstaltungsreferats der VolkswagenStiftung in Hannover.

»Hier werden neue Themen gefunden, welche die Perspektiven beträchtlich erweitern und künftige Studien anregen können.« OSTEUROPA, 24.06.2019»An excellent volume offering much food for thought for those involved in remembrance and commemoration.« Dominiek Dendooven, H-Soz-Kult, 14.11.2019»Der aus einem im Jahr 2017 veranstalteten, gleichnamigen Herrenhäuser Symposium hervorgegangene Band fragt nach den multiplen Enden des Ersten Weltkriegs und sensibilisiert damit für die globale Dimension der europäischen Katastrophe ebenso wie für das Erkenntnispotential wechselnder Periodisierungen.« Jahrbuch für Extremismus & Demokratie, Band 2019