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9781845452759

An Improbable War?

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    9781845452759

  • ISBN10:

    1845452755

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-10-10
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Summary

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the "long 19th century," the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability."

Author Biography

Holger Afflerbach specializes in 19th- and 20th- Century German history; international relations; military history, particularly World War I and World War II, as well as Austrian and Italian history and has written widely on these topics. Until recently DAAD Professor of History at Emory University, he now teaches at Leeds University.

David Stevenson is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He specializes in the history of international relations in Europe since c.1900, with particular reference to the World War I. His recent publications include Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914 (Oxford 1996) and Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy (New York, 2004).

Table of Contents

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Foreword: President Jimmy Carter: A Century of War and Peace
Introductionp. 1
European Statescraft and the Question of War and Peace Before 1914
Stealing Horses to Great Applause: Austria-Hungary's Decision in 1914 in Systemic Perspectivep. 17
Did Norms Matter in Nineteenth-Century International Relations? Progress and Decline in the "Culture of Peace" before World War Ip. 43
Aggressive and Defensive Aims of Political Elites? Austro-Hungarian Policy in 1914p. 61
The Curious Case of the Kaiser's Disappearing War Guile: Wilhelm II in July 1914p. 75
The Military Situation Before 1914: Europe Between Hot and Cold War
Chances and Limits of Armament Control 1898-1914p. 95
Was a Peaceful Outcome Thinkable? The Naval Race before 1914p. 113
Was a Peaceful Outcome Thinkable? The European Land Armaments Race before 1914p. 130
The German and Austro-Hungarian General Staffs and their Reflections on an "Impossible" Warp. 149
Hopes and Fears of War and Peace: Subjective Expectations and Unspoken Assumptions in European Societies Before 1914
The Topos of Improbable War in Europe before 1914p. 161
Unfought Wars: The Effect of Detente before World War Ip. 183
"War Enthusiasm?" Public Opinion and the Outbreak of War in 1914p. 200
Education for War, Peace, and Patriotism in Russia on the Eve of World War Ip. 213
Culture, Gender, Religiosity, and the Coming of War
Honor, Gender, and Power: The Politics of Satisfaction in Pre-War Europep. 233
International Solidarity in European and North American Protestantism before 1914 and afterp. 256
International Relations, Arts, and Culture before 1914p. 271
The Perspective from Afar: The Outbreak of War in Europe in the Eyes of Other Continents
War as the Savior? Hopes for War and Peace in Ottoman Politics before 1914p. 287
The View from Japan: War and Peace in Europe around 1914p. 303
War, Peace, and Commerce: The American Reaction to the Outbreak of World War I in Europep. 320
Contributorsp. 335
Selected Bibliographyp. 341
Index of Namesp. 361
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