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Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)

Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)

by Donal Hassett | Jun 18, 2025 | Publications

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...

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  • Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)

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