The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War (eBook)

David G. Herrmann (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20138-2 (ISBN)

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David Herrmann's work is the most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First World War. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, which has been extensively studied before, Herrmann draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England, and Italy to show the previously unexplored effects of changes in the strength of the European armies during this period. Herrmann's work provides not only a contribution to debates about the causes of the war but also an account of how the European armies adopted the new weaponry of the twentieth century in the decade before 1914, including quick-firing artillery, machine guns, motor transport, and aircraft. In a narrative account that runs from the beginning of a series of international crises in 1904 until the outbreak of the war, Herrmann points to changes in the balance of military power to explain why the war began in 1914, instead of at some other time. Russia was incapable of waging a European war in the aftermath of its defeat at the hands of Japan in 1904-5, but in 1912, when Russia appeared to be regaining its capacity to fight, an unprecedented land-armaments race began. Consequently, when the July crisis of 1914 developed, the atmosphere of military competition made war a far more likely outcome than it would have been a decade earlier.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones 4 maps 2 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Aehrenthal • Aehrenthal, Alois Lexa von • Agadir crisis • Aircraft • Airship • Alfred von Schlieffen • Algeciras conference • Alois Lexa von • American Council of Learned Societies • Ammunition • antimilitarism • Archives nationales (France) • Army • artillery • assassination • Austria-Hungary • Austro-Hungarian • austro-hungarian army • Austro-Hungarian General Staff • autocracy • Balkans • balkan wars • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bosnian crisis • British Army • British Expeditionary Force (World War II) • Budget • Bundeswehr • Calculation • Cavalry • chauvinism • Combatant • Committee of Imperial Defence • Common Army • Conflagration • Continental Army • Defence minister • disadvantage • European theatre of World War II • European war • Field army • Field Gun • First Moroccan Crisis • foreign policy • Fortification • Franco-Prussian War • Franco-Russian Alliance • Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf • Frederick the Great • French army • Funding • German Academic Exchange Service • Great Power • Hafid • Haldane, Richard Burdon • Harvard University • howitzer • imperial government • Indian Army • infantry • International crisis • italian army • Italians • Italian-Turkish War • Joseph Joffre • July Crisis • Krupp steelworks • machine guns • Manchuria • Meuse • Militarism • Military • military budget • Military Operation • Military organization • Military Service • Minister-president • Mogador • morale • napoleonic wars • national security • Nicholas II of Russia • Officer (armed forces) • Ottoman Empire • peacetime • Plan XVII • predictions of • Preemptive war • preventive war • prussia • Prussian army • quick-firing artillery • Quick-firing gun • Reconnaissance • Regiment • Reservist • Rifles • Russian Armed Forces • russians • Russo-Japanese war • Schlieffen Plan • Schneider-Creusot industries • Serbian Campaign of World War I • Siege engine • Skirmisher • Social Science Research Council • South Slavs • Superiority (short story) • Taxation • Technology • Total War • Triple Entente • Two-front war • Universal Service • Verdun • war • warfare • war plans • Weapon • World War I • Yale University • Zipfel
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20138-2 / 0691201382
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20138-2 / 9780691201382