Britain and the Origins of the First World War 2nd Edition by Zara Steiner, Keith Neilson 9780333734667 0333734661

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ISBN 10: 0333734661
ISBN 13: 9780333734667
Author: Zara S. Steiner, Keith Neilson
How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S. Steiner’s classic study, thoroughly revised with Keith Neilson, explores a subject which is as highly contentious as ever.While retaining the basic argument that Britain went to war in 1914 not as a result of internal pressures but as a response to external events, Steiner and Neilson reject recent arguments that Britain became involved because of fears of an ‘invented’ German menace, or to defend her Empire. Instead, placing greater emphasis than before on the role of Russia, the authors convincingly argue that Britain entered the war in order to preserve the European balance of power and the nation’s favourable position within it.Lucid and comprehensive, Britain and the Origins of the First World War brings together the bureaucratic, diplomatic, economic, strategical and ideological factors that led to Britain’s entry into the Great War, and remains the most complete survey of the pre-war situation.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Conservative Watershed
Chapter 3: The Diplomatic Response
Chapter 4: Britain and Germany: The Myth of Rivalry?
Chapter 5: Britain and Russia: The Troubled Relationship
Chapter 6: Britain, Germany and France, 1912–14: Flexibility and Constraint
Chapter 7: The Balkans, Russia and Germany, 1912–14
Chapter 8: The Domestic Contest: Liberal Politics and Conservative Pressure
Chapter 9: The Professional Influence: Diplomats and Officers
Chapter 10: The July Crisis
Chapter 11: Conclusion
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