Forging the collective memory : government and international historians through two World Wars / edited by Keith Wilson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : governments, historians, and "historical engineering" / Keith Wilson -- The historical diplomacy of the Third Republic / Keith Hamilton -- The unfinished collection : Russian documents on the origins of the First World War / Derek Spring -- Clio deceived : patriotic self-censorship in Germany after the Great War / Holger Herwig -- Senator Owen, the Schuldreferat, and the debate over war guilt in the 1920s / Herman Wittgens -- History as propaganda : the German Foreign Office and the enlightenment of American historians, 1930-1933 / E. Evans & J. Baylen -- Austria and the Great War / Ulfried Burz -- The pursuit of "enlightened patriotism" : the British Foreign Office and historical researchers during the Great War and its aftermath / Keith Hamilton -- The imbalance of British documents on the origins of the War, 1889-1914 : Gooch, Temperley, and the India Office / Keith Wilson -- Telling the truth to the people : Britain's decision to publish the diplomatic papers of the inter-war period / Uri Bialer -- Appendix: Harold Wilson and the adoption of the thirty-year rule in Great Britain.