Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument

ISBN-13: 9780367784720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 148 str.

Troy Paddock

Opis

Contesting the Origins of the First World War builds upon revisionist perspectives to reconsider the roles of the Great Powers in causing the conflict. This book provides a unique historiographical analysis of key texts on the First World War and it encourages students to engage with and challenge historical perspectives.

Spis treści

Acknowledgement

Foreword

A list of who is who

Chapter 1 Introduction: the debate continues

Chapter 2 Great Britain: an entente frame of mind…but nothing in writing

Chapter 3 Austria-Hungary: the Habsburgs and the failed third Balkan war

Chapter 4 Germany: a reappraisal

Chapter 5 Russia: when opportunity knocks

Chapter 6 France: the militarization of foreign policy

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Troy R.E. Paddock is a professor of European history at Southern Connecticut State University. He wrote Creating the Russian Peril: Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890–1914 (2010) and edited World War I and Propaganda (2014) and A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War (2004).