Historiography 1918-Today (Belgium) ... : Historiography 1918-Today (Belgium) ...

After a promising start, academic historiography of the First World War in Belgium fell silent after 1928. There was nothing that resembled an academic field of World War I studies in Belgium for decades. Two reasons might be the strength of Flemish national historiography and the enduring dominance of the Second World War. A remarkable shift occurred in the late 1990s, leading up to the frantic mobilization in 2014. This shift was not a generational occurence, but a convergence of separate decisions. This article hypothesizes that the underlying context was the end of the "golden era" of Belg... Mehr ...