LEADER 03627nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910817871603321 005 20230725061511.0 010 $a0-674-06117-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061170 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039411 035 $a(EBL)3301262 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860151 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11519448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860151 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10896748 035 $a(PQKB)11457727 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301262 035 $a(DE-B1597)178246 035 $a(OCoLC)1041188391 035 $a(OCoLC)804897630 035 $a(OCoLC)979777335 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061170 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10678693 035 $a(OCoLC)923119457 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039411 100 $a20110113d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDance of the furies $eEurope and the outbreak of World War I /$fMichael S. Neiberg 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-04954-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA clap of thunder in the summer sky -- Background to Sarajevo, 1905-1914 -- The delivery of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum -- Drifting into war against her will -- The coming of a great storm -- Our families will be their victims -- Hardening attitudes -- An evil dance of the furies. 330 $aThe common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael Neiberg shows that ordinary Europeans, unlike their political and military leaders, neither wanted nor expected war during the fateful summer of 1914. By training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting, Neiberg dispels the notion that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national boundaries.Neiberg marshals letters, diaries, and memoirs of ordinary citizens across Europe to show that the onset of war was experienced as a sudden, unexpected event. As they watched a minor diplomatic crisis erupt into a continental bloodbath, they expressed shock, revulsion, and fear. But when bargains between belligerent governments began to crumble under the weight of conflict, public disillusionment soon followed. Yet it was only after the fighting acquired its own horrible momentum that national hatreds emerged under the pressure of mutually escalating threats, wartime atrocities, and intense government propaganda. Dance of the Furies gives voice to a generation who found themselves compelled to participate in a ghastly, protracted orgy of violence they never imagined would come to pass. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xDiplomatic history 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xDiplomatic history. 676 $a940.3/11 700 $aNeiberg$b Michael S$0859804 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817871603321 996 $aDance of the furies$94085065 997 $aUNINA