02631nam 2200505 450 991049464520332120170821191837.00-85745-596-6(CKB)2670000000529735(EBL)946876(SSID)ssj0001212105(PQKBManifestationID)11757082(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212105(PQKBWorkID)11205776(PQKB)10838737(MiAaPQ)EBC946876(EXLCZ)99267000000052973520140325d2012 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn improbable war the outbreak of World War I and European political culture before 1914 /edited by Holger Afflerbach & David StevensonNew York :Berghahn Books,2012.1 online resource (380 p.)Revisions of papers from a conference held Oct. 2004 at Emory University in Atlanta.0-85745-310-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.part I. European statescraft and the question of war and peace before 1914 -- part II. The military situation before 1914 : Europe between hot and cold war -- part III. Hopes and fears of war and peace : subjective expectations and unspoken assumptions in European societies before 1914 -- part IV. Culture, gender, religiosity, and the coming of war -- part V. The perspective from afar : the outbreak of war in Europe in the eyes of other continents. The First World War has been described as the ""primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century."" Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideasWorld War, 1914-1918CausesCongressesEuropePolitics and government1871-1918CongressesElectronic books.World War, 1914-1918Causes940.311Afflerbach HolgerStevenson D.1954-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910494645203321An improbable war2467700UNINA