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The Wars Before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics Before the Outbreak of the First World War ed. by Dominik Geppert, William Mulligan, and Andreas Rose (review)

The Wars Before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics Before the Outbreak of the... Book Reviews The Wars Before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics Before the Outbreak of the First World War. Edited by DOMINIK GEPPERT, WILLIAM MULLIGAN, and ANDREAS ROSE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.xi+ 392 pp. $99 (hardcover). The Balkan Wars, as the editors of The Wars Before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics Before the Outbreak of the First World War point out, are often put in the shade by the overwhelming historiographical brightness of the conflict that started in July–August 1914. “The sheer scale of the First World War encouraged historians to look for longer term causes and trends” (p. 3). The wars of 1912–1913 were as much an international and Great Power crisis as what came later but a crisis that did not result in a war with the cataclysmic impact of 1914–1918. Professors Geppert, Mulligan, and Rose set out to remedy the neglect and recover the importance of the Balkan Wars. They do this by striving to understand how the Balkan Wars influenced and fed into the crisis of 1914. Understanding 1914, they argue, requires under- standing 1912–1913. Though this approach does not really let the Balkan Wars stand on their own as historical http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

The Wars Before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics Before the Outbreak of the First World War ed. by Dominik Geppert, William Mulligan, and Andreas Rose (review)

Silbey, David
Journal of World History , Volume 28 (2) – Nov 23, 2017
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Book Reviews The Wars Before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics Before the Outbreak of the First World War. Edited by DOMINIK GEPPERT, WILLIAM MULLIGAN, and ANDREAS ROSE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.xi+ 392 pp. $99 (hardcover). The Balkan Wars, as the editors of The Wars Before the Great War: Conflict and International Politics Before the Outbreak of the First World War point out, are often put in the shade by the overwhelming historiographical brightness of the conflict that started in July–August 1914. “The sheer scale of the First World War encouraged historians to look for longer term causes and trends” (p. 3). The wars of 1912–1913 were as much an international and Great Power crisis as what came later but a crisis that did not result in a war with the cataclysmic impact of 1914–1918. Professors Geppert, Mulligan, and Rose set out to remedy the neglect and recover the importance of the Balkan Wars. They do this by striving to understand how the Balkan Wars influenced and fed into the crisis of 1914. Understanding 1914, they argue, requires under- standing 1912–1913. Though this approach does not really let the Balkan Wars stand on their own as historical

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Published: Nov 23, 2017

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