Research Catalog

Title

Bid for world power? : new research on the outbreak of the First World War / edited by Andreas Gestrich and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann.

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Gestrich, Andreas
• Pogge von Strandmann, H. (Hartmut)
• German Historical Institute in London, issuing body.

Description

xi, 444 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Over fifty years ago the German historian Fritz Fischer published his famous book 'Germany's aims in the First World War.' It departed from the established consensus that many countries and governments had a shared responsibility for the outbreak of the war, and put the onus primarily on Germany. The book initiated a fierce international debate which Fischer seems to have mostly won. By the middle of the 1970s many of his controversial positions had become mainstream. More recent research, however, started to question this consensus again. Many scholars moved away from focusing on the responsibility of individual countries or politicians and turned to the complex structures and mechanisms of the international system. How does this 'systemic' perspective alter the importance Fischer's findings and interpretations? This volume brings together the latest research by many of the most prominent historians of the First World War from a wide range of countries and it presents the most important trends and results of recent international scholarship, frequently based on new archival findings unavailable to Fischer at the time.

Series Statement

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Uniform Title

Studies of the German Historical Institute London.

Subject

World War, 1914-1918 > Causes > Congresses

Note

• "... a conference ... to take stock of new research on the outbreak of the First World War."--Page v.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFD 17-4412

ISBN

• 0198792417
• 9780198792413

OCLC

965766635

Title

Bid for world power? : new research on the outbreak of the First World War / edited by Andreas Gestrich and Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Studies of the German Historical Institute London.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gestrich, Andreas, editor.

Pogge von Strandmann, H. (Hartmut), editor.

German Historical Institute in London, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-4412