Historiography Sessions 1-8

Question 1

a. Sidney Fay (The Origins of the World War, 1928)

Answer 1

structural factors and systems of alliance

Question 2

b. Fritz Fischer (Griff nach der Weltmacht – Grasp for World Power, 1961)

Answer 2

Responsibility of Germany: Berlin wanted/needed war

Question 3

James Joll (1914: The Unspoken Assumptions, 1968)

Answer 3

general belief in the inevitability of the conflict: patriotism exploited for domestic reasons

Question 4

Avner Offer (The First World War: an Agrarian Interpretation, 1989)

Answer 4

Importance concept of honor for European elites

Question 5

Jeffrey Verhey ( The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany, 2000)

Answer 5

vs. myth of war enthusiasm (social/class difference)