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Stealing Horses to Great Applause by Paul W. Schroeder
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Stealing Horses to Great Applause by Paul W. Schroeder
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Feb 18, 2025 | ISBN 9781804295793
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“He has made as good a case as has been made in recent years for treating international history as an important discipline in its own right”
—Times Literary Supplement

“Probably the foremost expert on the history of international politics in the world”
—Lothar Höbelt, International History Review

“A powerful intellect, a meticulous and innovative researcher who transformed his field”
—Katherine Aaslestad, Perspectives on History, the news magazine of the American Historical Association

“Perhaps the most distinguished diplomatic historian of his generation”
—Marc Trachtenberg, H-Diplo

“How had the world by 1914 become susceptible to a disastrous systemic breakdown? The one American historian who rose to this analytical challenge was Paul Schroeder. These historical insights have an obvious urgency today”
—Nicholas Mulder, Financial Times

“Perhaps the most distinguished diplomatic historian of his generation. He thought hard about the fundamental issues he was concerned with. What he had to say was always stimulating, always worth reading”
—Marc Trachtenberg, H-Diplo

“Few knew old Europe as intimately as Schroeder did. His cogent argument concerning the centrality of international relations is one which historians of all stripes ignore at their peril”
—Thomas Otte, author of Statesman of Europe

Table Of Contents

Introduction, Perry Anderson

PART I
1. World War I as Galloping Gertie: A Reply to Joachim Remak
2. International Politics, Peace and War, 1815–1914
3. Embedded Counterfactuals and World War I as an Unavoidable War
4. Stealing Horses to Great Applause: Austria-Hungary’s Decision in 1914 in Systemic Perspective
5. World War I and the Vienna System: The Last Eighteenth-Century War and the First Modern Peace

PART II
6. Romania and the Great Powers before 1914
7. Prudence vs Recklessness: Assessing Responsibility for World War I

PART III
8. World War I: A Tragedy, not a Pity
9. A. J. P. Taylor’s International System

Acknowledgments

Index

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