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Author: Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-04-25
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0674049543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting in 1914, Neiberg dispels the notion that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national boundaries.
Author: Jack S. Levy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107042453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together leading historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the First World War.
Author: Holger Afflerbach
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0857453106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability."
Author: David Stevenson
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 1997-01
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780333583272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStevenson provides a synthesis of the historical research into why, in 1914, a Balkan conflict escalated into a general European war, setting events within the context of the breakdown of international stability since the turn of the century
Author: James Lyon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-07-30
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1472580052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2015 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of the Great War to address in-depth the crucial events of 1914 as they played out on the Balkan Front. James Lyon demonstrates how blame for the war's outbreak can be placed squarely on Austria-Hungary's expansionist plans and internal political tensions, Serbian nationalism, South Slav aspirations, the unresolved Eastern Question, and a political assassination sponsored by renegade elements within Serbia's security services. In doing so, he portrays the background and events of the Sarajevo Assassination and the subsequent military campaigns and diplomacy on the Balkan Front during 1914. The book details the first battle of the First World War, the first Allied victory and the massive military humiliations Austria-Hungary suffered at the hands of tiny Serbia, while discussing the oversized strategic role Serbia played for the Allies during 1914. Lyon challenges existing historiography that contends the Habsburg Army was ill-prepared for war and shows that the Dual Monarchy was in fact superior in manpower and technology to the Serbian Army, thus laying blame on Austria-Hungary's military leadership rather than on its state of readiness. Based on archival sources from Belgrade, Sarajevo and Vienna and using never-before-seen material to discuss secret negotiations between Turkey and Belgrade to carve up Albania, Serbia's desertion epidemic, its near-surrender to Austria-Hungary in November 1914, and how Serbia became the first belligerent to openly proclaim its war aims, Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 enriches our understanding of the outbreak of the war and Serbia's role in modern Europe. It is of great importance to students and scholars of the history of the First World War as well as military, diplomatic and modern European history.
Author: S. N. Jaffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-03-09
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0192524747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which rendered the Peloponnesian War somehow necessary, inevitable, or compulsory. In this new political psychological study of Thucydides' first book, S.N. Jaffe shows how the History's account of the outbreak of the war ultimately points toward the opposing characters of the Athenian and Spartan regimes, disclosing a Thucydidean preoccupation with the interplay between nature and convention. Jaffe explores how the character of the contest between Athens and Sparta, or how the outbreak of a particular war, can reveal Thucydides' account of the recurring human causes of war and peace. The political thought of Thucydides proves bound up with his distinctive understanding of the interrelationship of particular events and more universal themes.
Author: Priscilla Wald
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-01-09
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780822341536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div
Author: Holger H. Herwig
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in the Problems in European Civilization series presents the diversity of viewpoints held by the field' s most eminent historians. The editor accompanies the essays and documents with his own essay, providing historical context and insights on each problem discussed.
Author: Dominik Geppert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1107063477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a comprehensive account of the wars before the Great War and their role in undermining international instability.
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-01-14
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 0801467217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Kagan takes issue with Thucydides' view that the war was inevitable, that the rise of the Athenian Empire in a world with an existing rival power made a clash between the two a certainty. Asserting instead that the origin of the war "cannot, without serious distortion, be treated in isolation from the internal history of the states involved," Kagan traces the connections between domestic politics, constitutional organization, and foreign affairs. He further examines the evidence to see what decisions were made that led to war, at each point asking whether a different decision would have been possible.
