An Improbable War?: The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914Holger Afflerbach, David Stevenson Berghahn Books, 01.10.2007 - 380 Seiten 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." |
Inhalt
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Chapter 2 DID NORMS MATTER IN NINETEENTHCENTURY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS? | 43 |
Chapter 3 AGGRESSIVE AND DEFENSIVE AIMS OF POLITICAL ELITES? | 60 |
Chapter 4 THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE KAISERS DISAPPEARING WAR GUILT | 74 |
EUROPE BETWEENHOT AND COLD WAR | 92 |
18981914 | 94 |
Chapter 6 WAS A PEACEFUL OUTCOME THINKABLE? | 113 |
Chapter 12 EDUCATION FOR WAR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM IN RUSSIA ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I | 213 |
Part IV CULTURE GENDER RELIGIOSITY AND THE COMING OF WAR | 230 |
Chapter 13 HONOR GENDER AND POWER | 232 |
Chapter 14 INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM BEFORE 1914 AND AFTER | 256 |
Chapter 15 AN IMPROBABLE WAR? INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ARTS AND CULTURE BEFORE 1914 | 270 |
THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN EUROPEIN THE EYES OF OTHER CONTINENTS | 284 |
Chapter 16 WAR AS THE SAVIOR? HOPES FOR WAR AND PEACE IN OTTOMAN POLITICS BEFORE 1914 | 287 |
Chapter 17 THE VIEW FROM JAPAN | 302 |
Chapter 8 THE GERMAN AND AUSTROHUNGARIAN GENERAL STAFFS AND THEIR REFLECTIONS ON AN IMPOSSIBLE WAR | 149 |
Part III HOPES AND FEARS OF WAR AND PEACE SUBJECTIVE EXPECTATIONS AND UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS IN EUROPEAN SOCIET... | 159 |
Chapter 9 THE TOPOS OF IMPROBABLE WAR IN EUROPE BEFORE 1914 | 160 |
Chapter 10 UNFOUGHT WARS | 182 |
Chapter 11 WAR ENTHUSIASM? PUBLIC OPINION AND THE OUTBREAK OF WAR IN 1914 | 200 |
Chapter 18 WAR PEACE AND COMMERCE | 320 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 335 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 340 |
INDEX | 360 |
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