Disputing Disaster

A Sextet on the Great War

Perry Anderson

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Verso Books
04 February 2025

History; Historiography; European history; First World War

In Disputing Disaster, 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 - an interstate relations and its breakdown in 1914; Keith Wilson, the one radical deviant from a patriotic consensus about Britain’s role in the outbreak of the fighting; and, from Australia (summoned into the war as a dominion), Christopher Clark, acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers.

Disputing Disaster 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.

Perry Anderson is emeritus in History at UCLA, and an editor at New Left Review. Recent work: Different Speeds, Same Furies, a comparative study of Anthony Powell and Marcel Proust.

By: Perry Anderson
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781804297674
ISBN 10: 1804297674
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 04 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword 1. Pierre Renouvin 2. Luigi Albertini 3. Fritz Fischer 4. Keith Wilson 5. Christopher Clark 6. Paul Schroeder Index

Perry Anderson is the author of, most recently, Different Speeds, Same Furies, Ever Closer Union? and Brazil Apart. He taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is an Editor at New Left Review.