The Origins Of The First World War

Author : James Joll,Gordon Martel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875369

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The Origins of the First World War by James Joll,Gordon Martel Pdf

James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the breadth and sympathy of James Joll's scholarship, and the clarity of his exposition, have all contributed to the spectacular success of the book since its first appearance in 1984. Revised by Gordon Martel, this new 3rd edition accommodates recent research and an expanded further reading section.

Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674072336

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The Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean McMeekin Pdf

The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a “tragedy of miscalculation.” Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg. It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful exposé of Russia’s aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.

Author : James Joll
Publisher : London ; New York : Longman
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0582490162

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The Origins of the First World War by James Joll Pdf

Author : William Mulligan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107159594

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The Origins of the First World War by William Mulligan Pdf

The second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War. Updated to take account of the latest debates around the war's origins and outbreak, this is an essential classroom text which significantly revises our understanding of diplomacy, political culture, and economic history from 1870 to 1914.

Author : Gerry Docherty,James MacGregor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780577494

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Hidden History by Gerry Docherty,James MacGregor Pdf

Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First World War. It reveals how accounts of the war’s origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on humanity. For ten years, they plotted the destruction of Germany as the first stage of their plan to take control of the world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was no chance happening. It lit a fuse that had been carefully set through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through Belgrade and St Petersburg to that cabal in London. Our understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of falsehood and duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at Versailles in 1919 and maintained by compliant historians ever since. The official version is fatally flawed, warped by the volume of evidence they destroyed or concealed from public view. Hidden History poses a tantalising challenge. The authors ask only that you examine the evidence they lay before you . . .

Author : Zara S. Steiner,Keith Neilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230213012

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Britain and the Origins of the First World War by Zara S. Steiner,Keith Neilson Pdf

How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner's classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever. While retaining the basic argument that Britain went to war in 1914 not as a result of internal pressures but as a response to external events, Steiner and Neilson reject recent arguments that Britain became involved because of fears of an 'invented' German menace, or to defend her Empire. Instead, placing greater emphasis than before on the role of Russia, the authors convincingly argue that Britain entered the war in order to preserve the European balance of power and the nation's favourable position within it. Lucid and comprehensive, Britain and the Origins of the First World War brings together the bureaucratic, diplomatic, economic, strategical and ideological factors that led to Britain's entry into the Great War, and remains the most complete survey of the pre-war situation.

Author : Ruth Henig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134506217

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The Origins of the First World War by Ruth Henig Pdf

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : H.W. Koch
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066084784

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The Origins of the First World War by H.W. Koch Pdf

Author : Gordon Martel
Publisher : London : Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0582286972

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The Origins of the First World War by Gordon Martel Pdf

"The Origins of the First World War deals with the policies and the issues that brought Europe to war in 1914. The position of each of the great powers within the international framework is concisely explained. The problems confronting them are also carefully analysed, as is the influence of political and economic structures on the decision-making process. Professor Martel shows how and why the confrontational alliance system came into being and considers the impact upon it of the series of crises that brought the major powers close to conflict in the opening years of the twentieth century. He outlines the terms and obligations that these alliances entailed and discusses the extent to which they were responsible for the outbreak of war. First published in 1987, The Origins of the First World War has proved itself an invaluable aid to students. For this Second Edition Gordon Martel has completely rewritten his original text in the light of recent scholarship. He has also updated the bibliography and added a number of useful reference tools which will help readers to grasp the details more easily. Thus, the main text is now supplemented not simply by a chronology of the principal events, but also by a biographical guide to the personalities mentioned in the book, a glossary of terms, and five maps."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Samuel R. Williamson Jr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349211630

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Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War by Samuel R. Williamson Jr Pdf

A major re-examination of Habsburg decision-making from 1912 to July 1914, the study argues that Austria-Hungary and not Germany made the crucial decisions for war in the summer of 1914. Based on extensive new archival research, the book traces the gradual militarization of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy during the Balkan Wars. The disasters of those wars and the death of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir-apparent and a force for peace in the monarchy, convinced the Habsburg elite that only a war against Serbia would end the South Slav threat to the monarchy's existence. Williamson also describes Russia's assertive foreign policy after 1912 and stresses the unique linkages of domestic and foreign policy in almost every issue faced by Habsburg statesmen.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521817358

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The Origins of World War I by Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig Pdf

Discusses and examines the possible causes of World War I.

Author : Leonard Charles Frederick Turner
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0393099474

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Origins of the First World War by Leonard Charles Frederick Turner Pdf

Author : Robert Gilpin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521379555

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The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars by Robert Gilpin Pdf

This analysis of the origins of major wars, since the development of the modern state system in Europe centuries ago, also considers the problems involved in preventing a contemporary nuclear war.

Author : Annika Mombauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875840

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The Origins of the First World War by Annika Mombauer Pdf

The seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the First World War have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversy. Annika Mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth century. The book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the war. Emotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the ‘war-guilt paragraph’ of the treaty of Versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposed. Similarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were suffered. Were they really justified?

Author : Troy R E Paddock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351390309

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Contesting the Origins of the First World War by Troy R E Paddock Pdf

Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to reconsider the roles of the other Great Powers. Using the work of Terrance Zuber, Sean McMeekin, and Stefan Schmidt as building blocks, this book reassesses the origins of the First World War and offers an explanation as to why this reassessment did not come about earlier. Troy R.E. Paddock argues that historians need to redraw the historiographical map that has charted the origins of the war. His analysis creates a more balanced view of German actions by also noting the actions and inaction of other nations. Recent works about the roles of the five Great Powers involved in the events leading up to the war are considered, and Paddock concludes that Germany does not bear the primary responsibility. This book provides a unique historiographical analysis of key texts published on the origins of the First World War, and its narrative encourages students to engage with and challenge historical perspectives.