1st Edition

Contesting the Origins of the First World War An Historiographical Argument

By Troy Paddock Copyright 2020
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to reconsider the roles of the other Great Powers. Using the work of Terrance Zuber, Sean McMeekin, and Stefan Schmidt as building blocks, this book reassesses the origins of the First World War... Read more

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

Biography

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).