Bid for world power? : new research on the outbreak of the First World War / edited by Andreas Gestrich and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann.

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First edition.
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  • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xi, 444 pages ; 23 cm

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    Studies of the German Historical Institute London [More in this series]
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    Over fifty years ago the German historian Fritz Fischer published his famous book Griff nach der Weltmacht (Germany's aims in the First World War). It departed from the established consensus that many countries and governments had a shared responsibility for the outbreak of the war, and put the onus primarily on Germany. The book initiated a fierce international debate which Fischer seems to have mostly won. By the middle of the 1970s many of his controversial positions had become mainstream. More recent research, however, started to question this consensus again. Many scholars moved away from focusing on the responsibility of individual countries or politicians and turned to the complex structures and mechanisms of the international system. How does this 'systemic' perspective alter the importance Fischer's findings and interpretations? This volume brings together the latest research by many of the most prominent historians of the First World War from a wide range of countries and it presents the most important trends and results of recent international scholarship, frequently based on new archival findings unavailable to Fischer at the time.
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    • A partial collection of papers presented at a 2011 conference organized by the German Historial Institute London to take stock of new research on the outbreak of the First World War and how it effects the conclusions drawn by German historian Fritz Fischer in his 1961 book Griff nach der Weltmacht.--Page v.
    • "German Historical Institute London."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Introduction / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
    • pt. I German Auskreisung or Einkreisung (Self-Exclusion or Encirclement)?
    • 2. Auskreisung? Anglo-German Antagonism and the Tirpitz Plan / Frank Nagler
    • 3. .̀. the greatest danger to this country that exists': German Plans for Commerce Warfare in British Naval Thinking / Matthew S. Seligmann
    • 4. .̀. two rival syndicates': The British Service Departments and the German Naval Threat. Towards a Fritz Fischer-Like Approach to British Foreign Policy / Andreas Rose
    • pt. II New Evidence on the Decisions for War: Germany and Austria-Hungary
    • 5. War Premeditated? The Ẁar Council' of 8 December 1912 Revisited / John C.G. Rohl
    • 6. Russian Horses: The German Army Leadership and the July Crisis of 1914 / Stig Forster
    • 7. Austria-Hungary's Decision for War in 1914 / Gunther Kronenbitter
    • pt. III New Evidence on the Decisions for War: France, Italy, and Britain
    • 8. France's Armaments and Military Situation in July 1914 / Gerd Krumeich
    • 9. Italy's Wars of Illusion, 1911
    • 1915 / R.J.B. Bosworth
    • 10. Peace and Retrenchment? The Edwardian Liberal Party, the Limits of Pacifism, and the Politics of National Defence / Matthew Johnson
    • pt. IV New Evidence on the Decisions for War: Russia and the Balkans
    • 11. The Mobilization Crises of 1912 and 1914 in Russian Perspective: Overlooked and Neglected Linkages / Bruce W. Menning
    • 12. The Balkan Inception Scenario: Serbia and the Coming of War in 1914 / Christopher Clark
    • 13. Fritz Fischer and the Ottoman Empire: Illusions on the Bosporus? / Alexandre Toumarkine
    • pt. V The War Aims of the Central and Entente Powers
    • 14. The Foundations of British War Aims in the First World War / Keith Neilson
    • 15. Russia's War Aims / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
    • pt. VI Revolutionizing Policies in the First World War
    • 16. Jihad or Nationalist Uprising? Germany's P̀rogramme for Revolution' in the Middle East / Jennifer L. Jenkins
    • 17. The Peace at Brest-Litovsk: Forgotten or Precedent-Setting Peace? / John W. Steinberg
    • pt. VII Continuities in German History
    • 18. From One War to the Other: The Impact of the First World War on the Second World War / Gerhard Hirschfeld.
    ISBN
    • 0198792417 ((hardback))
    • 9780198792413 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016955258
    OCLC
    965766635
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