Explorations in Crisis : : Papers on International History / / William L. Langer; ed. by Elizabeth Schorske, Carl E. Schorske.

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• VerfasserIn: Langer, William L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Schorske, Carl E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Schorske, Carl E.,; Schorske, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (517 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Prefatory Note
• Contents
• Introduction
• PART I. Systems, Games, and Players
• 1. The Origin of the Russo-Japanese War
• 2. Russia, the Straits Question, and the European Powers, 1904–1908
• 3. The 1908 Prelude to the World War
• 4. Russia, the Straits Question and the Origins of the Balkan League, 1908–1912
• 5. Bismarck as a Dramatist
• 6. Red Rag and Gallic Bull: The French Decision for War, 1870
• PART II. Imperialism Old and New
• 7. A Critique of Imperialism
• 8. The Struggle for the Nile
• 9. Alliance System and League
• 10. The Revival of Imperialism
• 11. Tribulations of Empire: The Mediterranean Problem
• 12. When German Dreams Come True
• 13. Farewell to Empire
• PART III. The United States as a World Power
• 14. The Faith of Woodrow Wilson
• 15. The American Attitude Towards Europe: An Historical Approach
• 16. Political Problems of a Coalition
• 17. Scholarship and the Intelligence Problem
• 18. American Objectives
• 19. Woodrow Wilson: His Education in World Affairs
• PART IV. Explorations in New Terrain
• 20. The Rise of the Ottoman Turks and Its Historical Background
• 21. The Historian and the Present
• 22. The Next Assignment
• 23. Europe’s Initial Population Explosion
• 24. The Pattern of Urban Revolution in 1848
• Retrospective
• 25. The Wellspring of Our Discontents
• Chronological List of William L. Langer’s Publications
• Index