The Outbreak of World War I : causes and responsibilities.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herwig, Holger H.

Series:

Problems in European civilization

Problems in European civilization series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Causes.

World War, 1914-1918.

War--Causes.

Physical Description:

xvi, 138 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Fifth edition, revised / edited and with an introduction by Holger H. Herwig.

Other Title:

Outbreak of World War 1.

Outbreak of World War one

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath and Co., [1991]

Contents:

Variety of opinion: the pre-Fischer school

I: The coming of war

The mood of 1914 / James Joll

1914: the unspoken assumptions / James Joll

The short-war illusion / L.L. Farrar, Jr.

The primacy of domestic politics / Arno J. Mayer

Domestic factors in German foreign policy / Wolfgang J. Mommsen

II: The outbreak of war: July 1914

Austria-Hungary opts for war / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.

1914: Germany opts for war, "now or never" / Fritz Fischer

In the eye of the storm: Kurt Riezler / Wayne C. Thompson

Russia accepts a general war / D.C.B. Lieven

The liberals muddle through to continental commitment / Zara Steiner

III: The question of war guilt

The charge: German war guilt / Commission on war guilt (1919)

1914: delusion or design? / John Rohl

The Fischer "controversy" and German war guilt / Imanuel Geiss

Anti-Fischer: a new war-guilt thesis? / Gerhard Ritter

World War I as galloping Gertie / Paul W. Schroeder

IV: The legacy

Patriotic self-censorship in Germany / Holger H. Herwig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0669213594

9780669213591

OCLC:

22452323