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 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.

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