Toward a Global History of the Great War

A lecture by John Horne (School of Histories and Humanities) for the Centre for International History Seminar Series.

Why do histories of globalization talk so little about wars, and especially the two world wars? How can global conflicts not be part of global history? How does it change the history of those wars when we try to write them from an explicitly global perspective? These are some of the questions tackled by John Horne in the book on the First World War which he is currently completing , and which he will present briefly at the seminar.

The Centre for International History draws on the burgeoning insights of scholars in the past few decades that history does not stop at the border of the nation-state.  International history explores comparative approaches and uncovers transnational flows of commerce, politics, culture, and ideas.  The Centre's research seminars and public events will display these methods while examining historical developments across the globe especially in the late modern period.

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