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This book brings together the views of internationally acclaimed scholars, and is the perfect synthesis of the controversies and debates surround this controversial subject, and on that will certainly make readers 'reconsider' their ideas about the origins of the First World War
Since 2014, there have been numerous works dedicated to the origins of the First World War, including studies of the July Crisis, new biographies of politicians and diplomats, and reassessments of pre-war crises, imperial rivalries, nationalist aspirations, militarism and popular culture. In this book, leading experts on aspects of the road that led to war in 1914 consider the contribution to our understanding made by all this new or renewed attention. The role of each of the Great Powers is examined, as well as underlying forces such as nationalism, militarism, the armaments race and the alliance system, and what impact they had in these origins. What did 'mobilization' mean? And what role did domestic politics and popular reactions to the assassination at Sarajevo play? Over three sections the volume analyses the differing international relationships of the various powers, the tensions between them and the underlying bigger forces at play.
The volume, gathering together the input of a group of internationally acclaimed scholars, is the perfect synthesis of the controversies and debates surround this controversial subject, and on that will certainly make readers 'reconsider' their ideas about the origins of the First World War.
Contents
Introduction: 'The Unending Debate: From Propaganda to Revisionism and Back Again' PART ONE -- THE POWERS 1. Germany: Encircled by Enemies or Grasping at World Power? - Holger Afflerbach and Alexandre Chiaramonte 2. Austria-Hungary: Dynastic Decline or Multinational Exemplar? - John Deak 3. France: Revanchist or Status Quo State? - Peter Jackson 4. The United Kingdom: 'Free Hand' or Committed to the Entente? - John W. Young 5. Russia: Balkan Hegemon or Cautious Conservative? - Ronald Bobroff 6. A 'Besieged' Historiography: Serbia and the July Crisis - Danilo Šarenac PART TWO -- THE TENSIONS 7. The Anglo-German Antagonism: Real or Imagined? - Dominik Geppert and Andreas Rose 8. The Alliance System: Surprisingly Peaceful or Cause of War? - Friedrich Kießling 9. The Arms Race: Did it Matter? - Matthew S. Seligmann 10. Did Mobilization Mean War? - John W. Steinberg PART THREE -- THE UNDERLYING FORCES 11. Domestic Politics: Primacy or Incidental? - Jérôme aan de Wiel 12. Popular Reactions to the Outbreak of War, 1914 - William Mulligan 13. Nationalism: Liberation and Expansion - Rolf Hobson References
