WW1 Origins and Historiography

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Joll (1990)

result of an accumulation of factors – intellectual, social, economic, and even psychological – which all contributed to the situation in July 1914’. (1984)- ‘many people in the 1920s blamed the international system, the existence of rival alliances

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Clark (The Sleepwalkers) (2010)

belligerence and imperialist paranoia of the Austrian and German policy makers. But the Germans were not the only imperialists and not the only ones to succumb to paranoia

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Clark (cont.)

Sleepwalk into the war as a result of the miscalculations and failure to understand the seriousness of the situation that was present in the Balkans.

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Geiss (1966)

Since the world war developed out of a local war, the major share for causing it lies with that power which willed the local and/or continental war. That power was clearly Germany… she did urge Austria to make war on Serbia.’

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Kennedy (1979)

‘Militarism, and military, planning had set up the European states like a row of dominoes

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Berghahn (1973)

Internal problems, dilemmas and conflicts of Wilhelmine government and society

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Joll and Martel (2007)

ermany’s aristocratic and industrial elites manipulated the expression of political opinion by mobilising interest groups in order to protect their own positions at the top of society and to mitigate the challenges posed by democracy and socialism.’

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