Topic 13: European Diplomacy (1871-1918)

Helpful Resources

• Seton-Watson, R. W.. ¨Chapter X - The Congress of Berlin¨  in Disraeli, Gladstone and the Eastern Question, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004

• Seton-Watson, R. W.. ¨Chapter XI - The Treaty of Berlin and its Results¨ in Disraeli, Gladstone and the Eastern Question, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004

Helpful Resources

• Primary - Extracts from Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's report to the Reichstag on December 3, 1913 on the Zabern Affair.

• Primary - The Daily Telegraph Interview with Wilhelm II October 1908

• Epkenhans, Michael, ¨Wilhelm II and ´His´Navy 1888-1918¨  in The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany edited by Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

• Evans, Richard ¨Imperial Germany 1890-1914¨ 

• Mclean, Roderick, ¨5 - Dreams of a German Europe: Wilhelm II and the Treaty of Björkö of 1905¨ in The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany edited by Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

• Seligmann, Matthew, ¨7 - Military diplomacy in a military monarchy? Wilhelm II’s relations with the British service attach ́es in Berlin, 1903–1914¨ in The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany edited by Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Helpful Resources

• Categorization Activity

• Anievas, Alexander, ¨1914 in world historical perspective: The ‘uneven’ and ‘combined’ origins of World War I¨ European Journal of International Relations 19(4) 721–746

• Geiss, Imanuel, ¨The Outbreak of the First World War and German War Aims¨  Journal of Contemporary History , Jul., 1966, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1914 (Jul., 1966), pp. 75-91

• MacMillan, Margaret, ¨Introduction,¨ in The War that Ended Peace : How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War, (Profile Books, 2013)

• Mulligan, William: The Historiography of the Origins of the First World War , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2016-11-30

• Primary - The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia 23 July 1914 

• "Stumbling towards the machine guns; The causes of the Great War? Nearly every leader got nearly everything wrong, says Antony Beevor." Times [London, England], 12 Oct. 2013, p. 13.

• Taylor, AJP, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954)

• Wasserstein, Bernard, "Chapter 1: Europe at 1914" in Barbarism and Civilization : A History of Europe in our Time, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

• ¨World War One: 10 Interpretations of who Started WW1¨ BBC Magazine 12 February 2014

• Youtube - Clark, Christopher, How Europe Went to War in 1914

Helpful Resources

• podcast - Poe, Marshall, and Norman Stone. Norman Stone Interview, "World War One: A Short History". Marshall Poe, New Books in History, 2009.

• Tunstall, Graydon A.: The Military Collapse of the Central Powers , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2015-04-30

• Wasserstein, Bernard, "Chapter 2: Europe at War 1914-1917" in Barbarism and Civilization : A History of Europe in our Time, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

• Watson, Alexander. "Stabbed at the Front," History Today, vol 11-58, (2008), 21-27. Audio

• White, David, ¨Why Did Germany Lose the Great War¨ Open History Society 2020

Helpful Resources

• Hagemann, Karen, & Schuler-Springorum, Stefanie, Home Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, Berg, 2002 

• Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Germany, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2017-07-17

• Stibbe, Matthew, Women's Mobilisation for War (Germany) , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08