This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. The recent flood of books on the subject testifies not only to the celebration or commemoration of the 100th anniversary of its outbreak, but also to our frustrated need to make sense of the cataclysmic event that reshaped the modern world. The exception is the continued interest in the causes of the First World War. Outside of the historical profession there is little interest today in the origins of, say, the War of the Sicilian Vespers, the War of 1812, the Crimean War, or even the war in Vietnam. More popular with “history buffs” are the wars themselves: the strategy of the generals, the tactics on the battlefields, the technological innovations. But fashions come and go, and our fascination with the origins of wars diminishes over time.

Our concern with the clashes of civilizations and cultures, empires and states has been one of the few constants in historical research over the last two millennia. This has been the case since Herodotus and Thucydides, both of whom turned to history to discover how to live in the present. It comes as no surprise that our interest in the past reflects our current preoccupations.

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