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

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Paul W. Schroeder was professor of history and political science at the University of Illinois. His works included Austria, Great Britain and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert and The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848. He died in 2020 at the age of 93. Verso is publishing two volumes of his writings, America Abroad and Stealing Horses to Great Applause.

Résumé

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Paul W. Schroeder, Schroeder Paul W.
• Collaboration: Perry Anderson (Introduction)
• Edition: Verso
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9781804295793
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-579-3
• Pages: 384
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Essais, chroniques, critiques littéraires, entretiens; Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > 20e siècle (jusqu'en 1945); 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