Stealing Horses to Great Applause | Buch

Cover: 9781804295793 | Stealing Horses to Great Applause | Paul W. Schroeder | Buch | 2025

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Stealing Horses presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts which focus on the actions of a single state or the final countdown to hostilities, Paul W. Schroeder describes the systemic crisis engulfing the Great Powers. They were more interested in colonial plunder overseas ('stealing horses to great applause', in the old Spanish adage) than the traditional statecraft of European peace-making. Preserving the balance of power required preserving all the essential actors in it, including a tottering Austria-Hungary. This the British in particular failed to recognise. The Central Powers may have started the War but that does not mean they in any real sense caused it. In the end Schroeder recalls the verdict of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 'All are punished'.

Stealing Horses includes appraisals of Niall Ferguson and A. J. P. Taylor, and an extensive unpublished final paper re-thinking the First World War as 'the last 18th-century war'.

With an Introduction by Perry Anderson.

Über den Autor

Paul W. Schroeder is the author of, among other things, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848 in the Oxford History of Modern Europe. He taught history and political science at the University of Illinois for many years and died in 2020 at the age of ninety-three.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Perry Anderson

PART I
1. World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak
2. International Politics, Peace and War, 1815–1914
3. Embedded Counterfactuals and World War I as an Unavoidable War
4. Stealing Horses to Great Applause: Austria-Hungary’s Decision in 1914 in Systemic Perspective
5. World War I and the Vienna System: The Last Eighteenth-Century War and the First Modern Peace

PART II
6. Romania and the Great Powers before 1914
7. Prudence vs Recklessness: Assessing Responsibility for World War I

PART III
8. World War I: A Tragedy, not a Pity
9. A. J. P. Taylor’s International System

Acknowledgments
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781804295793
ISBN-10:	1804295795
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Schroeder, Paul W.
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	215 x 148 x 34 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul W. Schroeder
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.02.2025
Gewicht:	0,45 kg