The Great War in Transnational Perspective - Jay Winter

Jay M. Winter, the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century.
The history of global war requires a global perspective to make sense of the seismic waves the outbreak of the 1914-18 conflict sent around the world. This lecture describes the parameters of recent approaches to the study of war loosely grouped around theterm “transnational.” That term describes the way in which the history of the war has been written more and more by scholars who were born in one country, educated in a second and teach in a third. The changing career trajectories of historians have informed historical accounts which go beyond the single nation or state to do justice to a conflict which transcended national borders and which was much, much bigger than the states waging it.
Presented November 8, 2014 as part of the National World War I Museum and United States World War I Centennial Commission 2014 Symposium, "1914: Global War & American Neutrality."
The Symposium was held in association with The Western Front Association East Coast Branch and the World War I Historical Association. Sponsored by Colonel J's, the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund and Verlag Militaria.
For more information about the National WWI Museum and Memorial visit theworldwar.org

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This speech will help me a lot with my research about Brazil in Great War.

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His comments on European remembrance are vitally important in this time of Brexit and such madness.

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Paul Fussel better tbh

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One of my absolute favorite historians!!!!

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Is there a transcript?

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A remarkable Historian and a quite remarkable lecture!