Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War
A major re-examination of Habsburg decision-making from 1912 to July 1914, the study argues that Austria-Hungary and not Germany made the crucial decisions for war in the summer of 1914. Based on extensive new archival research, the book traces the gradual militarization of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy during the Balkan Wars. The disasters of those wars and the death of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir-apparent and a force for peace in the monarchy, convinced the Habsburg elite that only a war against Serbia would end the South Slav threat to the monarchy's existence. Williamson also describes Russia's assertive foreign policy after…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-333-42081-2
- EAN: 9780333420812
- Produktnummer: 19597248
- Verlag: Red Globe Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 372 g
- Auflage: 1991
- Gewicht: 372
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SAMUEL R. WILLIAMSON, Jr is President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of the South, Sewanee, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His study The Politics of Grand Strategy: Britain and France Prepare for War, 1904-1914 (1969) won the George Louis Beer Prixe of the American Historical Association, and he has published widely on the origins of the First World War.
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