{"product_id":"disputing-disaster-perry-anderson-9781804298015","title":"Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War","description":"\u003cb\u003eA group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDisputing Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalkers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisputing Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Perry Anderson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1804298018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804298015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Perry Anderson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114078318847,"sku":"9781804298015","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab8e2233-be2e-48f1-8e41-a9bef64a8dfd.jpg?v=1769618974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/disputing-disaster-perry-anderson-9781804298015","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}