
The Coming of the First World War
Clarendon Press
Published on 27. September 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-19-822841-7 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
A collection of excellent essays ... incorporating the conclusions of the latest scholarship. * London Review of Books * ... full of fresh ideas and mostly elegantly and eloquently written. It fully justifies the editors" claim to have contributed something new and significant by concentrating ... upon the actual decisions of politicians and their immediate background in the public opinion and popular mood of those sultry July days. * English Historical Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
map
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-822841-7 (9780198228417)
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Persons
Editor
FellowFellow, Brasenose College, Oxford
FellowFellow, University College, Oxford
Content
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