The Coming of the First World War
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The Coming of the First World War
(Clarendon paperbacks)
Clarendon, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
First published: Oxford University Press : 1988
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book makes two distinctive contributions to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history. First, it presents readable and judicious accounts of the events and decisions directly precipitating the outbreak of war in each of the main belligerent countries; second, it assesses the role of public opinion and popular mood in determining and responding to the `July Crisis' of 1914.
With a list of contributors who are all distinguished in different aspects of the subject, this stimulating survey covers the historiography of the immediate causes of the war, and includes new reflections on the character of the official and unofficial `mentalites' during the last weeks of peace.
Contributors: Sir Michael Howard, Zbynek Zeman, R. J. W. Evans, D. W. Spring, Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, Richard Cobb, and Michael Brock.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Europe on the eve of the First World War
- The Balkans in the outbreak of the First World War
- The Habsburg monarchy and the coming of the war
- Russia and the outbreak of the First World War
- Germany and the origins of the First World War
- The coming of the First World War: France
- Britain enters the war
- Bibliography
- Index
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