HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Clark, Christopher M.
Subjects
World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diplomatic history.
Europe -- History -- 1871-1918.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Clark, Christopher M.
by title:
The sleepwalkers [el...
MARC Display
The sleepwalkers [electronic resource] : how Europe went to war in 1914 / Christopher Clark.
by
Clark, Christopher M.
New York, NY : Harper, 2013.
Subjects
World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diplomatic history.
Europe -- History -- 1871-1918.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918.
Electronic Resource
http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=8E75CA9E-B2DE-4D16-9C9A-0A65775B6E2B
This title is available online; click here to access
Electronic Resource
http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{8E75CA9E-B2DE-4D16-9C9A-0A65775B6E2B}Img100.jpg
ISBN:
9780062199225 (electronic bk.)
0062199226 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (xxxi, 697 p.) : ill., maps, ports.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Contents:
Roads to Sarajevo. Serbian ghosts. Murder in Belgrade ; 'Irresponsible elements' ; Mental maps ; Separation ; Escalation ; Three Turkish wars ; The conspiracy ; Nikola Pašić reacts ; The empire without qualities. Conflict and equilibrium ; The chess players ; Lies and forgeries ; Deceptive calm ; Hawks and doves -- One continent divided. The polarization of Europe, 1887-1907. Dangerous liaison : the Franco-Russian Alliance ; The Judgement of Paris ; The end of British neutrality ; Belated empire : Germany ; The Great Turning Point? ; Painting the devil on the wall ; The many voices of european foreign policy. Sovereign decision-makers; Who governed in St Petersburg? ; Who governed in Paris? ; Who governed in Berlin? ; The troubled supremacy of Sir Edward Grey ; The Agadir Crisis of 1911 ; Soldiers and civilians ; The press and public opinion ; The fluidity of power ; Balkan entanglements. Air strikes on Libya ; Balkan helter-skelter ; The wobbler ; The Balkan Winter Crisis of 1912-13 ; Bulgaria or Serbia? ; Austria's troubles ; The Balkanization of the Franco-Russian Alliance ; Paris forces the pace ; Poincaré under pressure ; Last chances : détente and danger, 1912-1914. The limits of détente ; 'Now or never' ; Germans on the Bosphorus ; The Balkan inception scenario ; A crisis of masculinity? ; How open was the future? ; Murder in Sarajevo. The assassination ; Flashbulb moments ; The investigation begins ; Serbian responses ; What is to be done? ; The widening circle. Reactions abroad ; Count Hoyos goes to Berlin ; The road to the Austrian ultimatum ; The strange death of Nikolai Hartwig ; The French in St Petersburg. Count de Robien changes trains ; M. Poincaré sails to Russia ; The poker game ; The ultimatum. Austria demands ; Serbia responds ; A 'local war' begins ; Warning shots. Firmness prevails ; 'Its' war this time' ; Russian reasons ; :Last days. A strange light falls upon the map of Europe ; Poincaré returns to Paris ; Russia mobilizes ; The leap into the dark ; 'There must be some misunderstanding' ; The tribulations of Paul Cambon ; Britain intervenes ; Belgium ; Boots.
Requests:
0
Summary:
On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sarajevo railway station, Europe was at peace. Thirty-seven days later, it was at war. The conflict that resulted would kill more than fifteen million people, destroy three empires, and permanently alter world history.
Copy/Holding information
No Item Information
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.