Nations, Identities and the First World War

Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by different social, ethnic, political and religious groups during the conflict and its aftermath. The book combines chapters on broad topics like propaganda state formation, town and nation, and minorities at war, with more specific case studies in order to deepen our understanding of how processes of national identification supported the cultures of total war in Europe. This transnational volume also reveals and develops a range of insightful connections between the themes it covers, as well as between different groups within Europe and different countries and regions, including Western and Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and colonial territories. It is a vital study for all students and scholars of the First World War.

Nico Wouters is Director of the Centre for War and Contemporary Society (State Archives Belgium) and Guest Lecturer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He is the co-editor of The Handbook of State Sponsored History after 1945 (2018), the author of Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46 (2016) and the editor of Transitional Justice and Memory in Europe (1945-2013) (2014). He is also Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Belgian History.
Laurence van Ypersele is Professor of Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She is also a board member on the international research committee of the Historial de la Grande Guerre of Péronne, France. She is the author and co-author of several French-language books in the area of war and memory.

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Nations, Identities and the First World War: Introduction - Nico Wouters (Centre for War and Contemporary Society, Belgium) and Laurence Van Ypersele (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Part I - The Fatherland of the Other
1. Patriotism and the Enemy: Political Identity as a Weapon - John Horne (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
2. From Propaganda to National Identity Construction in Turkey - Erol Köroglu (Bogaziçi University, Turkey)
3. The Italian Case: The Ambiguities of a Nationalist Cultural Mobilization - Marco Mondini (Italian-German Historical Institute, Italy)
4. How the Great War Changed the Mental Map of the Prussian Poles - Jens Boysen (German Historical Institute Warsaw, Poland)
Part II - The Limits of Nationalization
5. Popular Nationalism, State Forms and Modernity - John Breuilly (London School of Economics, UK)
6. Questions of Nationalization in the Habsburg Monarchy - Laurence Cole (University of Salzburg, Austria)
7. The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Limits of Nationalization in Southeastern Europe - Nikolai Vukov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
8. The Layering of Belgian National Identities during the First World War - Barbara Deruytter (Ghent University, Belgium)
Part III - Minorities in and at War
9. Minorities in and at War: Exposure, Persecution, Reaction - Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester, UK)
10. Creating 'Fatherlands' in the Balkans: The Case of Greece - Emilia Salvanou (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
11. Nationalism and Racism in Franco-German Controversies about Colonial Soldiers - Christian Koller (Swiss Social Archives, Switzerland)
Part IV - Town and Nation
12. An Urban Geography of the World at War - Pierre Purseigle (University of Warwick, UK)
13. Paris under the Bombs: Urban Experiences of Localism and National Identity - Élise Julien (Sciences Po Lille, France)
14. The Transformation of the Serbian National Capital through War and Occupation - Jovana Knezevic (Stanford University, USA)
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