A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century
emperor’s subjects felt ‘better the devil we know’. There was much to be said for the supranational solution which the Habsburg ...
constituted the majority, each in their own half. The majority of the 21 million Slavs (approximate 1910 figures) in the empire ...
Everywhere the mass of the peasantry was attached to the Habsburg dynasty. Agitation for independence, whether of Czech or south ...
whole lagged far behind the more advanced west- ern and northern European nations. Regional variations were as marked in industr ...
The real threat in 1914 was felt to be not Serbia but Serbia in alliance with Russia. Security and integrity are basic objectiv ...
Russia with a peremptory note that unless it recognised the annexation at once, Germany would not hold the Monarchy back from at ...
The Great War disrupted and destroyed lives on a scale never known before. More than 60 million men were mobilised and 8.5 milli ...
a vague warning to Vienna that the archduke would be in danger when he visited Sarajevo. The amateur assassins almost bungled th ...
staff, Conrad von Hötzendorf, moreover, pointed out that, if Russia intervened, the Austro- Hungarian army would need German mil ...
Hungarian prime minister, remained opposed to war at their meeting on 7 July and the following week gave way only on condition t ...
Oslo Helsinki Stockholm Warsaw Berlin Prague Cologne London Dublin ATLANTIC OCEAN NORTH SEA GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ICELAND N ...
officially announced. The line was now to put pres- sure on Austria-Hungary. The following day, 25 July, the tsar at an impe- ri ...
Yet Britain cannot be absolved from blame. War broke out in 1914 not only as a consequence of the shots at Sarajevo. The tension ...
their differences. Then Britain would have been isolated in the world. British policy was too com- promised to allow Grey, in th ...
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1 Part II BEYOND EUROPE: THE SHIFTING BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER ...
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European imperial dominance of much of the globe, of Africa, of India and eastern Asia extend- ing to China reached its zenith i ...
settled in the towns where they preferred to join their countrymen who had kept close together in the cities and found unskilled ...
any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law’. However, as a protection of the civil rights of African A ...
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