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The Origins of the First World War (3rd Edition) (Origins Of Modern Wars)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.311
EAN: 9780582423794
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0582423791
Label: Longman
Manufacturer: Longman
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: November 06, 2006
Publisher: Longman
Studio: Longman
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Editorial Review:This work provides concise introduction to one of the major historical controversies of our time. This 3rd edition includes a new introduction, a chronology of the key events and an update on the historical debate explaining the directions in which the historiography is heading.
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Rating:  - Excellent overview
Joll has written an excellent academic overview and introduction to the origins of the First World War. He covers all the angles, in a way that does justice to the majority of the arguments surrounding the academic debate. If there is a criticism worthy of mention, it is that he covers every argument, yet argues very little. This is perhaps natural, even inevitable, for a work that is intended to introduce the topic, and for readers seeking a sound introduction, this book is certainly worthy.
Rating:  - A Topical Approach to the Causes of World War I
The Origins of the First World War by James Joll was a concise but informative study of the major causes of the catastrophe that engulfed Europe and much of the world from 1914-1918. Joll began the book with a summary of the July Crisis of 1914 which was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. The rest of the chapters examined the major problems in Europe that made war inevitable. This review will examine each chapter and its importance in making World War I inevitable.
There ... Read More
Rating:  - Superlative
Joll's second edition of 'The Origins of the First World War' is without question one of the finest, most informative, and yet concise and easily readable treatises on the entire complicated topic. His analysis examines multiple factors influencing the war, and is admirably neutral, not displaying taint or bias (particularly that of Fischer), and provides one of the most excellent and succinct general analyses of the failure of the Second International that I have yet come across. Joll's bibliography ... Read More
Rating: - Dry but informative
Short, very short, look at the First World War. Overly dry and academic, even for a scholarly contribution. Too many other books out there to waste time on this one.
Rating: - Into the vortex - from all the angles
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 ... Read More
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