Author: Holger HjelholtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
British Mediation in the Danish-German Conflict
Author: Holger HjelholtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Britain and the German Question
Author: F. MüllerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Disraeli claimed that no country suffered more from the foundation of the German Reich than England. Bismarck's empire of 1871 did not, however, strike like a bolt from the blue. The question of German unity had been brewing for decades. Britain and the Germany Question reconstructs the way Victorians pictured the pre-history of the Reich from the July Revolution of 1830 until the eve of the 'Wars of German Unification'. It scrutinises how Britain's foreign political establishment - the diplomats, journalists and politicians who informed, determined and executed British foreign policy - analysed and responded to the Germans' search for a reformed, united and powerful nation state. It lays bare British interests, preconceptions and preoccupations and explains what kind of united Germany Britain would have welcomed. The book thus illuminates three themes crucial to our understanding of nineteenth-century Europe: the international repercussions of German nationalism; Britain's attitude to continental politics; and the interlocking of liberalism, nationalism revolution and reform.
Great Britain, the Danish-German Conflict and the Danish Succession, 1850-1852
Author: Holger HjelholtPublisher: København : Munksgaard
ISBN:
Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Logics of War
Author: Alex WeisigerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801468167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864–1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history. When leaders go to war expecting easy victory, events usually correct their misperceptions quickly and with fairly low casualties, thereby setting the stage for a negotiated agreement. A second explanation involves motives born of domestic politics; as war becomes more intense, however, leaders are increasingly constrained in their ability to continue the fighting. Particularly destructive wars instead arise from mistrust of an opponent's intentions. Countries that launch preventive wars to forestall expected decline tend to have particularly ambitious war aims that they hold to even when fighting goes poorly. Moreover, in some cases, their opponents interpret the preventive attack as evidence of a dispositional commitment to aggression, resulting in the rejection of any form of negotiation and a demand for unconditional surrender. Weisiger’s treatment of a topic of central concern to scholars of major wars will also be read with great interest by military historians, political psychologists, and sociologists.
Historisk-filosofiske meddelelser
Author: Historisk-filologiske Skrifter
Author: Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The National union catalog, 1968-1972
Author: Sūkās
Author: Oppositions of Voice in Greek, Slavic and Baltic
Author: Herman KøllnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Catalogue of the Foreign Office Library, 1926-1968: Subject catalogue
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description