Holger (Hrsg.) Afflerbach

An Improbable War?

The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914

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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 about the war's causes, especially the notion of inevit… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Stevenson, David (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85745-596-3
EAN: 9780857455963
Produktnummer: 20453661
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 380 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'545 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Holger Afflerbach specializes in 19th- and 20th- Century German history; international relations; military history, particularly World War I and World War II, as well as Austrian and Italian history and has written widely on these topics. He is Professor of Central European History at the University of Leeds.