Origins of the First World War / Gordon Martel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martel, Gordon, author.

Series:

Seminar studies in history

Seminar studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Causes.

World War, 1914-1918.

War--Causes.

Physical Description:

xix, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

"Summarises the policies, issues and crises that brought Europe to war in 1914"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Machine-generated contents note: pt. I Analysis and assessment

1. The problem

The outbreak of war

Explaining causes

2. The Great Powers to 1900

The Triple Alliance

The Dual Alliance

Great Britain

3. The European crisis

The diplomatic revolution

The vortex of south-eastern Europe

The July crisis

4. Assessment

pt. II Documents

1. The Dual Alliance

2. The Triple Alliance

3. The Reinsurance Treaty

4. Bismarck's eastern policy

5. The kaiser and Bismarck's departure

6. The 'Willy-Nicky' correspondence

7. The Franco-Russian Alliance

8. The Franco-Russian Military Convention

9. The 'Kruger telegram'

10. The Tirpitz Memorandum of June 1897

11. Germany and 'world policy'

12. Economic parasites of imperialism

13. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance

14. Schlieffen and the Russian army

15. Germany, Britain and Morocco

16. The Manifesto of Futurism

17. The Black Hand

18. Russia, Britain and Persia

19. Capitalism in the Balkans

20. France and Belgium, January 1912

21. Russia's Balkan policy

22. Lloyd George's Mansion House speech

23. The 'War Conference' of December 1912

24. Germany, Sir Edward Grey and foreign policy

25. Germany's strategic situation in May 1914

26. English opinion and the Triple Entente

27. Germany and the assassination

28. Will Germany restrain Austria?

29. The Kaiser's 'blank cheque' to Austria

30. The aftermath of the assassination

31. Germany's Balkan policy

32. Russia and the threat of revolution

33. The policy of Sir Edward Grey

34. The Austrian ultimatum

35. Italy and the breakdown of the Triple Alliance

36. Serbia's reply to the ultimatum

37. Britain's response to the Serbian reply

38. Germany's response to the Serbian reply

39. The Russian mobilization

40. Germany and the next war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-184) and index.

ISBN:

9781138928640

113892864X

9781138928657

1138928658

OCLC:

962813840