Misfire - The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: "I could have practically touched him"


• Chapter One: "Tools" of Progress


• Chapter Two: Worlds Apart


• Chapter Three: Vying Visions


• Chapter Four: An "Epic" Conspiracy!


• Chapter Five: "World History is Horrific From Up Close"


• Chapter Six: "The First Shots of the First World War"


• Conclusion: "The Bottom of the Matter"


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Paul Miller-Melamed teaches history at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland and McDaniel College in the United States. He is the author of From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914 and the co-editor of Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1914.

Summary

By narrating the Sarajevo assassination in a broad historical context, Misfire contends that the most consequential political murder in modern history would have remained inconsequential if not for the decisions made by the leaders of Europe's Great Powers.

Additional text

What can only be touched on in Miller-Melamed's stimulating study is the even broader question of what the meaning of events in historical narratives lies.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Miller-Melamed, Paul (Professor of History Miller-Melamed
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2022
• EAN: 9780195331042
• ISBN: 978-0-19-533104-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Sarajevo, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Bosnia-Herzegovina, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I