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Germany and the Next War : Militarism and the Imagination of Violence, 1888-1914.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewitson, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (817 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press July 2026
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
- Summary:
- The third volume of Mark Hewitson's study of the violence of war in the German lands during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume re-examines contemporaries' assumptions about the relative costs and benefits of war and re-assesses the role of the military and 'militarism' in the outbreak of hostilities in 1914.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Germany and the Next War : Militarism and the Imagination of Violence, 1888-1914
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- The Catastrophe of War
- War and Militarism
- Imagining Military Conflict
- 1: Past Wars
- Nerves and Scars
- National Mythologies of War
- Histories of German Wars
- Memories and Experiences of Military Conflicts
- 2 : The Arms Race
- War, Armament, and the Question of the Military
- Parties and the Politics of the Military
- Navalism and the Navy Bill
- Army Increases
- 3 : Militarism and Its Limits
- Military Cultures
- Nationalist Leagues
- The SPD and Army Abuses
- Köpenick and Zabern
- 4 : Conscripts and Veterans
- Civilians and the Military
- The Realities of Military Service
- Kriegervereine
- 5 : War Scares
- Patriotic Literature
- The Ambiguous Failure of Pacifism
- The Technology of Killing
- Political Parties and Military Conflict
- 6 : Virtual Wars
- Military Adventures and Colonial Conflicts
- The Herero War in South West Africa
- The Russo-Japanese War
- The Balkan Wars
- 7 : Friends and Foes
- A New World Order?
- The Hereditary Enemy
- The Perception of Threats before 1914
- 8 : War Plans
- War Games and Doom-Mongering
- The 'Russian Menace'
- Victory and Defeat
- Continental Warfare
- 9: War or Peace
- Diplomacy and Conflict
- The Chancellor's Trees
- The Brink of War
- Conclusion
- Bellicosity and War
- A War Imagined
- Government and the Military Machine
- Militarism and the Outbreak of the First World War
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Newspapers and Magazines
- Official Documents
- Diaries, Memoirs, and Correspondence
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780192508560
- OCLC:
- 1593675050
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