Paul Miller-Melamed (Professor of History, Professor of History, Jo

Misfire

The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By narrating the Sarajevo assassination in a broad historical context, Misfire contends that the most consequential political murder in modern history would have remained inconsequential if not for the decisions made by the leaders of Europe's Great Powers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780195331042
• ISBN-10: 0195331044
• Artikelnr.: 61937991

Autorenporträt

Paul Miller-Melamed teaches history at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Poland and McDaniel College in the United States. He is the author of From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914 and the co-editor of Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1914.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "I could have practically touched him"
Chapter One: "Tools" of Progress
Chapter Two: Worlds Apart
Chapter Three: Vying Visions
Chapter Four: An "Epic" Conspiracy!
Chapter Five: "World History is Horrific From Up Close"
Chapter Six: "The First Shots of the First World War"
Conclusion: "The Bottom of the Matter"
Notes
Bibliography
Index