LEADER 02708nam 2200529 450 001 9910814717903321 005 20170821191837.0 010 $a0-85745-596-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780857455963 035 $a(CKB)2670000000529735 035 $a(EBL)946876 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001212105 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11757082 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212105 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11205776 035 $a(PQKB)10838737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC946876 035 $a(DE-B1597)635960 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780857455963 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000529735 100 $a20140325d2012 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 03$aAn improbable war $ethe outbreak of World War I and European political culture before 1914 /$fedited by Holger Afflerbach & David Stevenson 210 1$aNew York :$cBerghahn Books,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (380 p.) 300 $aRevisions of papers from a conference held Oct. 2004 at Emory University in Atlanta. 311 $a0-85745-310-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apart 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. 330 $a 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 ideas 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses$vCongresses 607 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$y1871-1918$vCongresses 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses 676 $a940.311 702 $aAfflerbach$b Holger 702 $aStevenson$b D.$f1954- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814717903321 996 $aAn improbable war$94126758 997 $aUNINA