The Origins of the First World War

This thoroughly revised edition has been updated to incorporate recent case studies, biographies, syntheses, journal articles and scholarly conferences that appeared in conjunction with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014.

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James Joll (1918-1994) was a distinguished historian of international history at St Antony's College, Oxford and as Stevenson Professor at the University of London. He was the author of numerous works on anarchism and socialism as well as Europe since 1870: an international history (1973).

Gordon Martel is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria. He is the author of numerous works on international history, including The Month that Changed the World: July 1914 (2014) and editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Diplomacy.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A Century of Explanations, 2. The July crisis, 1914, 3.The alliance system and the old diplomacy, 4. Militarism, armaments and strategy, 5. The primacy of domestic politics, 6. The international economy, 7. Imperial rivalries, 8. The mood of 1914, 9. Conclusion