Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe 1904-1914 - Hardcover

Stevenson, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198202083 ISBN 13: 9780198202080

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1996

Synopsis

The global impact of the First World War dominated the history of the first half of the twentieth century. This major reassessment of the origins of the war, based on extensive original research in several countries, is the first full analysis of the politics of armaments in pre-1914 Europe.
David Stevenson directs attention away from the Anglo-German naval race towards the competition on land between the continental armies. He analyses the defence policies of the powers, and the interaction between the growth of military preparedness and the diplomatic crises in the Mediterranean and the Balkans that culminated in the events of July-August 1914. Drawing on insights from political science, the book offers a fresh conceptual framework for the origins of the First World War, and provides a thought-provoking case-study of the broader relationships between armaments and international conflict.

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Review:

This has become an indispensable tool in our understanding of this vital era. (Contemporary Review, Paperbacks.)

It has a full scholarly apparatus, with footnotes conveniently at the foot of the page - today unusual, but very welcome. The Journal of the Victorian Military Society (June 1997)

From the Publisher:

Reviews from Military History, Choice & Contemporary Review.
`This has become an indespensible tool in our understanding of this vital era.' Contemporary Review, Vol.277, No.1615.

`This important study is a mandatory acquisition for libraries with serious collections on the 20th century.' Choice

`Will certainly become the definitive study of the relationship between armaments and the origins of the First World War . . . rich and complex work.' International History Review

`Superb study . . . It provides a set of key understandings about the road to war in the age of 1914, or in 1997.' Military History

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198202083
• ISBN 13: 9780198202080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 476