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9780857453105
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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."
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An Improbable War; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Foreword. A CENTURY OF WAR AND PEACE; Introduction. AN IMPROBABLE WAR?; Part I. EUROPEAN STATES CRAFT AND THE QUESTION OF WAR AND PEACE BEFORE 1914; Chapter 1. STEALING HORSES TO GREAT APPLAUSE; Chapter 2. DID NORMS MATTER IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS?; Chapter 3. AGGRESSIVE AND DEFENSIVE AIMS OF POLITICAL ELITES?; Chapter 4. THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE KAISER'S DISAPPEARING WAR GUILT; Part II. THE MILITARY SITUATION BEFORE 1914: EUROPE BETWEENHOT AND COLD WAR
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Chapter 5. CHANCES AND LIMITS OF ARMAMENT CONTROL: 1898-1914Chapter 6. WAS A PEACEFUL OUTCOME THINKABLE?; Chapter 8. THE GERMAN AND AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN GENERAL STAFFS AND THEIR REFLECTIONS ON AN "IMPOSSIBLE" WAR; Part III. HOPES AND FEARS OF WAR AND PEACE SUBJECTIVE EXPECTATIONS AND UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES BEFORE 1914; Chapter 9. THE TOPOS OF IMPROBABLE WAR IN EUROPE BEFORE 1914; Chapter 10. UNFOUGHT WARS; Chapter 11. "WAR ENTHUSIASM?" PUBLIC OPINION AND THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1914; Chapter 12. EDUCATION FOR WAR, PEACE, AND PATRIOTISM IN RUSSIA ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I
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Part IV. CULTURE, GENDER, RELIGIOSITY, AND THE COMING OF WARChapter 13. HONOR, GENDER, AND POWER; Chapter 14. INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM BEFORE 1914 AND AFTER; Chapter 15. AN IMPROBABLE WAR? INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ARTS, AND CULTURE BEFORE 1914; Part V. THE PERSPECTIVE FROM AFAR: THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN EUROPEIN THE EYES OF OTHER CONTINENTS; Chapter 16. WAR AS THE SAVIOR? HOPES FOR WAR AND PEACE IN OTTOMAN POLITICS BEFORE 1914; Chapter 17. THE VIEW FROM JAPAN; Chapter 18. WAR, PEACE, AND COMMERCE; CONTRIBUTORS; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe An improbable war? New York : Berghahn Books, 2012 ISBN 9780857453105
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ISBN 9781845452759
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English
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Author information:
Afflerbach, Holger 1960-
Author information:
Stevenson, David 1954-
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