Routledge. Hardcover, viii, 285p. . Near Fine. Hardcover. Date: 2015. 2015. Routledge ISBN 1472430565 9781472430564 [US]

ISBN10: 1472430565, ISBN13: 9781472430564, [publisher: Ashgate] Hardcover First Edition Hardcover, viii + 285 pages, NOT ex-library. Printed in the UK. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show mild shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. Contents: Prologue; Introduction; "Insecurity-Security Dialectica and the Unexpected Armageddon; Origins of the Franco-Prussian War; Global Consequences of the Franco-Prussian War; French Calls for Revanche and Bismarck's Nightmare of Coalitions; British Intervention in Egypt and the Threat of a Continental Alliance; Bismarck's Strategy and Anglo-German Alliance Talks; Failure of Caprivi's New Course; 1894: Year of Anglo-German Alienation; Fissures within the Continental Alliance; Failure of Anglo-German Alliance Talks; Britain's Quest for New Allies; Anglo-German Detente and Eurasian Conflicts; Question of Alsace-Lorraine; Stumbling Into Armageddon; Conclusions: Failure to Prevent World War I; Selected Bibliography; Index. -- World War I represents one of the most studied, yet least understood, systemic conflicts in modern history. At the time, it was a major power war that was largely unexpected. This book refines and expands points made in the author’s earlier work on the failure to prevent World War I. It provides an alternative viewpoint to the thesis of Christopher Clark, Fritz Fischer, Paul Kennedy, among others, as to the war's lon ...
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Ashgate Pub Co, Date: 2015. Hardcover. New. new edition edition. 294 pages. 9.41x6.30x0.63 inches. 2015. Ashgate Pub Co ISBN 1472430565 9781472430564 [GB]

Ashgate Pub Co 2015 Hardcover New edition edition. 294 pages. 9.41x6.30x0.63 inches.