Paul W. Schroeder

Stealing Horses to Great Applause

The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered

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Produktbeschreibung

Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 148mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781804295793
• ISBN-10: 1804295795
• Artikelnr.: 69922051

Autorenporträt

Paul W. Schroeder was professor of history and political science at the University of Illinois. His works included Austria, Great Britain and the Crimean War: The Destruction of the European Concert and The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848. He died in 2020 at the age of 93. Verso is publishing two volumes of his writings, America Abroad and Stealing Horses to Great Applause.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Perry Anderson
PART I
1. World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak
2. International Politics, Peace and War, 1815–1914
3. Embedded Counterfactuals and World War I as an Unavoidable War
4. Stealing Horses to Great Applause: Austria-Hungary’s Decision in 1914 in
Systemic Perspective
5. World War I and the Vienna System: The Last Eighteenth-Century War and
the First Modern Peace
PART II
6. Romania and the Great Powers before 1914
7. Prudence vs Recklessness: Assessing Responsibility for World War I
PART III
8. World War I: A Tragedy, not a Pity
9. A. J. P. Taylor’s International System
Acknowledgments
Index