Bid for World Power? : New Research on the Outbreak of the First World War

Content

• Frontmatter

  p. I

• Foreword

  p. V

  Gestrich, Andreas

• Contents

  p. VIIII

• Introduction

  p. 1

  Gestrich, Andreas; Pogge von Strandmann, Hartmut

• Auskreisung? : Anglo-German Antagonism and the Tirpitz Plan

  p. 37

  Nägler, Frank

• ‘. . . the greatest danger to this country that exists’ : German Plans for Commerce Warfare in British Naval Thinking

  p. 63

  Seligmann, Matthew S.

• ‘. . . two rival syndicates’ : The British Service Departments and the German Naval Threat. Towards a Fritz Fischer-Like Approach to British Foreign Policy

  p. 77

  Rose, Andreas

• War Premeditated? The ‘War Council’ of 8 December 1912 Revisited

  p. 105

  Röhl, John C. G.

• Russian Horses : The German Army Leadership and the July Crisis of 1914

  p. 127

  Förster, Stig

• Austria-Hungary’s Decision for War in 1914

  p. 149

  Kronenbitter, Günther

• France’s Armaments and Military Situation in July 1914

  p. 163

  Krumeich, Gerd

• Italy’s Wars of Illusion, 1911-1915

  p. 181

  Bosworth, R. J. B.

• Peace and Retrenchment? : The Edwardian Liberal Party, the Limits of Pacifism, and the Politics of National Defence

  p. 201

  Johnson, Matthew

• The Mobilization Crises of 1912 and 1914 in Russian Perspective : Overlooked and Neglected Linkages

  p. 223

  Menning, Bruce W.

• The Balkan Inception Scenario : Serbia and the Coming of War in 1914

  p. 263

  Clark, Christopher

• Fritz Fischer and the Ottoman Empire : Illusions on the Bosporus?

  p. 289

  Toumarkine, Alexandre

• The Foundations of British War Aims in the First World War

  p. 313

  Neilson, Keith

• Russia’s War Aims

  p. 335

  Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David

• Jihad or Nationalist Uprising? : Germany’s ‘Programme for Revolution’ in the Middle East

  p. 357

  Jenkins, Jennifer L.

• The Peace at Brest-Litovsk : Forgotten or Precedent-Setting Peace?

  p. 377

  Steinberg, John W.

• From One War to the Other : The Impact of the First World War on the Second World War

  p. 405

  Hirschfeld, Gerhard

• Notes on Contributors

  p. 419

• Index

  p. 425