Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914 - Softcover

Stevenson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198208316 ISBN 13: 9780198208310

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

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. 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 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)

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)

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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: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198208316
• ISBN 13: 9780198208310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 476