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Title: Origins of the First World War (2nd Edition) by James Joll ISBN: 0-582-41866-6 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 28 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.40 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Into the vortex - from all the angles
Comment: The Origins of the First World War is a highly readable and enlightening tour of the world in mid-1914. Joll doesn't come at you from any particular political perspective and grants you access to all the arguments for the conflict. Nationalism, politics, military expansion, big business interests, imperialism along with conditions in each of the beligerents are examined in a free flowing easy style.
Joll does a very nice job in demolishing the Marxist line that WW1 was the result of imperialism and big business interests. By the end you are left convinced that, while the German naval expansions of 1912 were ultimately to blame for the process that led to war, each country got involved for entirely different reasons. There are good maps which give are easy to understand.
I do have some criticisms though. Each chapter is self contained but doesn't have any sub-headings or breaks. The editors could have spent a little time breaking up the text in each chapter to make the text a bit more readable. There isn't a great deal of attention to longer term history - such as the lingering impact left by the Crimean war and its peace treaty. But these are relatively minor quibbles about history writing that almost ranks as a work of art. Joll was a highly gifted historian.
Rating: 3
Summary: Very Good Overview
Comment: This is a concise and well written introduction to the history and historiography of the 1st World War. Joll does an excellent job of reviewing the opening of the war and the background of the European diplomatic system. He then presents a series of critical chapters reviewing the some of the proposed causes of the war including imperial rivalries, capitalist competition, and domestic political needs. Joll is judicious and evenhanded in his analysis and leaves readers with the conclusion that there was not one or even a few causes of the war. Instead, readers gain a clear picture of the complexities and instability of European society prior to the war.
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Title: The Origins of the Second World War: Seminar Studies in History Series, Second Edition by R. J. Overy ISBN: 0582290856 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 25 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling ISBN: 0300002211 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1967 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions, and Foreign Policy by Richard N. Haass, Meghan L. O'Sullivan ISBN: 0815733550 Publisher: The Brookings Institution Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict - revised edition (International Security Readers) by Michael E. Brown ISBN: 0262523159 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Russia, America, and the Cold War, 1949-1991 (Seminar Studies in History) by Martin McCauley ISBN: 0582279364 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 25 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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