Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War

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ID7150869
AutoresDónal Hassett (0000-0001-7489-9424, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas1049-1067
Data de publicação2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContemporary European History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0960777325100878
OpenAlexW4411255904
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas8

The Centenary of the First World War saw unprecedent prominence given to the ‘colonial contribution’ in commemorative discourse. While this newfound public recognition sometimes relied on simplistic and sanitised narratives of the war, scholarship produced in the period has greatly enriched understandings of how conflict was experienced by colonised peoples. In this article, I explore the utility of one of the key conceptual innovations of the Centenary, the Greater War, for the analysis of colonial experiences of the conflict. I do this by considering three key questions: Can the Greater War framework facilitate new comparative histories of violence in the war? How do its expanded chronologies account for colonial contexts? Can we adapt its conceptual frameworks to better integrate colonial histories? Exploring the potential answers to these questions will point to new avenues of research that can ensure the colonial is effectively incorporated into our narratives of the global conflict

Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Political science · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History