![]() ![]() Not everyone agreed MacMillan turns periodically, if too briefly, to the peace movements led by Alfred Nobel, Bertha von Suttner and the Socialist International, but in the end, nationalism overwhelmed these altruistic impulses. ![]() Inflexible military planning “defensive” pacts that appeared offensive to rivals national fears, honor and prestige the characters and capabilities of national leaders consideration of war as a means of suppressing internal divisions and, finally, "mistakes, muddle or simply poor timing" all played a part in steering Europe from considering a general war unthinkable to considering it inevitable. Rather than allocating blame for the war or asking why it came about, the author asks instead, “hy did the long peace not continue?.One way of getting at an answer is to see how Europe's options had narrowed down in the decades before 1914." She begins with the confident Europe celebrated in the Paris Exposition of 1900 and shows how national rivalries gradually eroded the comity of nations to the point where a brilliant civilization chose to tear itself to pieces. ![]() Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History, 2009, etc.) takes on the origins of World War I. Award-winning academic MacMillan (International History/Oxford Univ. ![]()
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