Stealing Horses to Great Applause - The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered

Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacy

List of contents

Introduction, Perry Anderson

PART I
1. World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak
2. International Politics, Peace and War, 1815–1914
3. Embedded Counterfactuals and World War I as an Unavoidable War
4. Stealing Horses to Great Applause: Austria-Hungary’s Decision in 1914 in Systemic Perspective
5. World War I and the Vienna System: The Last Eighteenth-Century War and the First Modern Peace

PART II
6. Romania and the Great Powers before 1914
7. Prudence vs Recklessness: Assessing Responsibility for World War I

PART III
8. World War I: A Tragedy, not a Pity
9. A. J. P. Taylor’s International System

Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Paul W. Schroeder is the author of, among other things, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 in the Oxford History of Modern Europe. He taught history and political science at the University of Illinois for many years and died in 2020 at the age of ninety-three.Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.

Summary

Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacy

Product details

• Authors: Paul W. Schroeder, Schroeder Paul W.
• Assisted by: Perry Anderson (Introduction)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9781804295793
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-579-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Essays, First World War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, HISTORY / Essays, International Relations, Literary essays, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I