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Author : Scott Wolford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426015
This analytical history of World War I offers a rigorous yet accessible training in game theory, and a survey of modern political science research.
Author : David Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012966142
This study focuses on the politics of World War I placing the events in the context of 20th century international history and explaining why the governments resorted to war in pursuit of their political objectives.
Author : Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Publisher : Hurst
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849045056
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigencies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers' conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. This is a multidimensional account of the many seemingly discrete yet interlinked campaigns that resulted in one to one and a half million casualties. It details not just their military outcome but relates them to intelligence-gathering, industrial organisation, authoritarianism and the political economy of empires at war.
Author : Jack S. Levy,John A. Vasquez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107042452
This volume brings together leading historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the First World War.
Author : Holger Afflerbach,David Stevenson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857453105
The 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 : Basic Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786738854
David Stevenson's widely acclaimed history of World War I changes forever our understanding of that pivotal conflict. Countering the commonplace assumption that politicians lost control of events, and that the war, once it began, quickly became an unstoppable machine, Stevenson contends that politicians deliberately took risks that led to war in July 1914. Far from being overwhelmed by the unprecedented scale and brutality of the bloodshed, political leaders on both sides remained very much in control of events throughout. According to Stevenson, the disturbing reality is that the course of the war was the result of conscious choices -- including the continued acceptance of astronomical casualties. In fluid prose, Stevenson has written a definitive history of the man-made catastrophe that left lasting scars on the twentieth century. Cataclysm is a truly international history, incorporating new research on previously undisclosed records from governments in Europe and across the world. From the complex network of secret treaties and alliances that eventually drew all of Europe into the war, through the bloodbaths of Gallipoli and the Somme, to the arrival of American forces, and the massive political, economic, and cultural shifts the conflict left in its wake, Cataclysm is a major revision of World War I history.
Author : David G. Herrmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691201382
David Herrmann's work is the most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First World War. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, which has been extensively studied before, Herrmann draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England, and Italy to show the previously unexplored effects of changes in the strength of the European armies during this period. Herrmann's work provides not only a contribution to debates about the causes of the war but also an account of how the European armies adopted the new weaponry of the twentieth century in the decade before 1914, including quick-firing artillery, machine guns, motor transport, and aircraft. In a narrative account that runs from the beginning of a series of international crises in 1904 until the outbreak of the war, Herrmann points to changes in the balance of military power to explain why the war began in 1914, instead of at some other time. Russia was incapable of waging a European war in the aftermath of its defeat at the hands of Japan in 1904-5, but in 1912, when Russia appeared to be regaining its capacity to fight, an unprecedented land-armaments race began. Consequently, when the July crisis of 1914 developed, the atmosphere of military competition made war a far more likely outcome than it would have been a decade earlier.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004262683
Cataclysm 1914 brings together a number of prominent leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War and its impact in the making of modern world politics.
Author : Christoph Cornelissen,Arndt Weinrich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800737273
From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
Author : Andreas Rose
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785335792
Prior to World War I, Britain was at the center of global relations, utilizing tactics of diplomacy as it broke through the old alliances of European states. Historians have regularly interpreted these efforts as a reaction to the aggressive foreign policy of the German Empire. However, as Between Empire and Continent demonstrates, British foreign policy was in fact driven by a nexus of intra-British, continental and imperial motivations. Recreating the often heated public sphere of London at the turn of the twentieth century, this groundbreaking study carefully tracks the alliances, conflicts, and political maneuvering from which British foreign and security policy were born.
Author : Edward Eastman McCullough
Publisher : Black Rose Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047456721
Attempts to understand the real causes of the First World War.
Author : Andrew Suttie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230505599
This book assesses Lloyd George's attempt to shape the history of 1914-18 through his War Memoirs. His account of the British conduct of the war focused on the generals' incompetence, their obsession with the Western Front, and their refusal to consider alternatives to the costly trench warfare in France and Belgium. Yet as War Minister and Prime Minister Lloyd George presided over the bloody offensives of 1916-17, and had earlier taken a leading role in mobilising industrial resources to provide the weapons which made them possible. Rewriting the First World War examines how Lloyd George addressed this paradox.
Author : David M. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0195173996
With a new Afterword, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kennedy reveals how the First World War's legacy of Wilsonian idealism is reflected today in President George W. Bush's National Security Strategy.
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344
"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Michael Howard,Michael Eliot Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199205592
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did. It examines the state of Europe in 1914 and the outbreak of war; the onset of attrition and crisis; the role of the US; the collapse of Russia; and the weakening and eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Looking at the historical controversies surrounding the causes and conduct of war, Michael Howard also describes how peace was ultimately made, and the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.