During the years leading up to 1914, Europe’s upper classes, the landowning aristocracy and the industrial-financial bourgeoisie, had lived through years of almost intolerable tension. Obsessed by the ...
"First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books"--Title page verso. pt. I. Roads to Sarajevo. I. Serbian ghosts : Murder in Belgrade ; 'Irresponsible elements' ; ...
After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...
ON the fourteenth of July I was in Paris, and curiosity took me to the grand review, held every year in the French capital on that day of national festival which commemorates the taking of the ...
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 17, No. 4, Special Issue: Americans and WWI: 100 Years Later (October 2018), pp. 636-649 (14 pages) This essay investigates the motives by ...
In a recent Brookings Institution essay entitled “The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War,” historian Margaret Macmillan argues that there are strong and haunting parallels between today’s ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from European War 6: 1914 Since January 2022, Microsoft has been trying to complete its $70 billion purchase of Activision Advertisement All the Latest Game ...
THAT ‘peace is the work of righteousness’ is a trite saying. Yet this truism has seldom been observed in international dealings. Japan’s participation in the European war and her campaign against the ...
Dr Tommaso Milani’s new book, Hendrik de Man and Social Democracy: The Idea of Planning in Western Europe, 1914-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) investigates the intellectual and political trajectory of ...